In this latest newsletter from conservation and research organisation Bonefish & Tarpon Unlimited, find out amongst other things about the worlds tiniest tarpon and what a bonefish is made of!?

The North Atlantic Salmon Fund team (NASF) and commercial fishermen throughout the north Atlantic meet regularly to review salmon stocks and to decide upon measures that restore stocks quickly and efficiently. At a recent meeting in Reykjavik, the famous singer Björk, met with the fishermen when she was helping to launch an Icelandic nature restoration fund.

U.S. Senators Olympia J. Snowe and Susan Collins (R-Maine) recently announced that the Maine Department of Marine Resources will receive $1,138,306 in funding from the U.S. Department of Commerce National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Specifically, the grant will be used to fund a research study and assessment of Atlantic salmon in Maine’s freshwater rivers.

Since 1983, sports fishermen from the Drammen River in Norway have been saving the scales of Atlantic salmon, caught as they return from years at sea to spawn in fresh water. A team of researchers including Jennifer McCarthy of the University of Massachusetts Amherst is using these scales to solve the mystery of why most of these endangered fish never survive their ocean stay.

Research shows that adult tarpon migrate throughout the Gulf of Mexico, southeastern United States, and the Caribbean. In addition, genetic research indicates a single large tarpon stock. This means that this is a regional fishery and the resource should be managed as a single stock.

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If you thought photographs of dead tarpon were things of the past in US waters, think again. We were recently provided photographs of what appears to be a growing ‘sport’ in coastal Louisiana – spearfishing for tarpon.

Bonefish &Tarpon Unlimited continue their fight to protect populations of the majectic tarpon.

MANY believe Labour is now on course to lose the angling vote, given UK Fisheries Minister Jonathan Shaw's failure to protect the UK’s important and valuable recreational bass fishery, it was claimed today.