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FEOCP Billboard Campaign Against Illegal Fishing In Costa Rica

If you are driving from the airport towards San Jose, the capital of Costa Rica, you will pass two simple sets of three billboards each. Lettered in Spanish the signs basically translate into English as: There are foreign boats fishing illegally in Costa Rica They …

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Costa Rica Names Moises Mug New Head of Fisheries

The loss of a great scientist is turning into a big win for Costa Rica. President Carlos Alvarado took office May 8, 2018, and at 38 years old is the country’s youngest president ever. One of his many appointments made in his progressive new government …

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Costa Rica’s Tuna Decree Is Saving Billfish & Dolphin

In 2014 President Luis Guillermo Solis signed a Tuna Decree prohibiting tuna purse sein operations within 45 miles of the coastline of Costa Rica. Other important areas and sea mounts were also protected effectively prohibiting tuna netting operations in over 200,000 square kilometers of territorial water. …

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Pacific Islands Biosphere Reserve In Mexico

On December 7, Mexico’s President Enrique Peña Nieto unexpectedly announced he was signing a series of decrees which included the establishment of the Pacific Islands Biosphere Reserve off the west coast of the Baja California Peninsula in the Pacific Ocean. The new 2.7 million acre …

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Q and A With CDFW – January 2017

Importing Native Snakes To Control Ground Squirrels? Q:We have a small orange grove in Ventura County that has been overrun by ground squirrels in the past few years. Is there any legal method of “importing” king snakes or gopher snakes onto our property to help …

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Help Push Gillnets Off the California Coast

Help us Remove Gillnets off the California Coast Fellow anglers, I have some good news to report in our efforts to encourage West Coast fisheries managers to transition away from drift gillnets, and want to urge all of you to get involved over the next …

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California Hunting and Fishing Q and A – September 21

Hunting and Fishing Questions Sea Lions are Eating All My Bait Q:Is there anything I can do to deter or discourage sea lions from eating all my crabbing bait? I know that seals and sea lions are protected under the Marine Mammal Protection Act but I’ve …

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Sea Lions- To Kill or Not To Kill

Sea Lion Controversy Kill Salmon As in every debate, there are moderate viewpoints towards the middle of the road and then there are the “zealots” on either side of the issue who will not listen or be swayed. This holds true for just about every …

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Manatees Pick Super Bowl Winners

Manatees Pick Super Bowl Ravens In the past, manatees served as food for Native Americans (sea cow, anyone?) and were mistaken by 15th-century sailors as beautiful mermaids (what’s that say about the real women in those times?). Now, a new title has been added: psychic. …

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Open Season on Seals

Environmental groups are already lining up in protest of a proposed congressional bill that is hoping to repeal the 1972 Marine Mammal Protection Act. The goal of the newly proposed legislation is to reopen a legal seal hunting season on the West Coast of the …

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FEOCP Billboard Campaign Against Illegal Fishing In Costa Rica

Costa Rica Names Moises Mug New Head of Fisheries

Costa Rica’s Tuna Decree Is Saving Billfish & Dolphin

Pacific Islands Biosphere Reserve In Mexico

Q and A With CDFW – January 2017

Help Push Gillnets Off the California Coast

California Hunting and Fishing Q and A – September 21

Sea Lions- To Kill or Not To Kill

Manatees Pick Super Bowl Winners

Open Season on Seals

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