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National Conservation Advocate Job Announcement |
 MFCN seeks a National Conservation Advocate to work in Washington, DC. The primary responsibilities of the position are to assist the executive and policy directors in the development and implementation of national advocacy programs and then coordinate MFCN’s congressional outreach and legislative advocacy initiatives.
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 The Marine Fish Conservation Network notes with respect the passing of former Senator Ted Stevens of Alaska on August 9, 2010. Without Sen. Stevens’ leadership and his commitment to long-term sustainability of marine fisheries, we would not have realized the new requirements for annual catch limits and accountability measures that prevent overfishing in the 2006 reauthorized Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act(MSA).
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Scientists Suspect Decline of Herring is Result of Bycatch in Other Fisheries |
 Fish managers considering stepped-up monitoring and closing areas to trawlers
Herring were so common in the Potomac River in the spring of 1832 that a single seine net captured a few more than 950,000 "accurately counted," according to a report at the time. A few decades later, Spencer Baird, head of the U.S. Fish Commission, estimated that during the 1830s, the herring in the river must have numbered 3 billion fish.
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Obama Signs Executive Order to Implement National Ocean Policy |
 Washington DC -- History was made yesterday when President Obama signed an Executive Order to implement a National Ocean Policy that will provide a planning framework and governance structure to guide uses of the oceans, coasts and Great Lakes. The Marine Fish Conservation Network applauds passage of this highly anticipated and fruitful policy that will benefit marine ecosystems and fish, as well as the fishermen who depend on them.
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Ecosystems, Economy Will Benefit from Newly Released National Ocean Policy |
 Forty years of effort to save our seas and Great Lakes finally culminated today when the Obama Administration announced the country’s first National Ocean Policy, a guiding vision and mandate for all federal agencies to balance sustainable ocean uses with ocean protection.
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