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Cooper's year

Spring, summer, winter and fall — the author and his guide friend celebrate the New England wild

by Ted Williams - Friday, Jun 13th, 2025

Photo: Richard James (cc 2.0).

My friend Cooper carries neither gun nor rod. He is perfectly content to guide me. There is no better upland bird hunting guide in New England. That’s not just my opinion. Everyone who has hunted with Cooper says so.

In the grouse and woodcock woods I often disappoint him, and he lets me know it — but only with dirty looks.

The shore lunch that almost wasn't

Anglers from far-flung places congregate around spruce-wood fire and await delectable morsels of perfectly fried, fresh-from-the-lake fish

by Chris Hunt - Thursday, Jun 12th, 2025

Photo: Earl Harper.

It’s an old trope — a cautionary tale for every would-be travelling angler. The weather may never be as good as the day before you arrive or as bad as the day you climb into your waders for a 40-minute run across a boreal lake in search of pike. There’s likely some math behind this Murphy’s Law of fly fishing, but it escapes this English major’s limited numerical capacity.

Jaws turns 50: Has the iconic film played a role in the dramatic decline in shark populations?

Sharks have experienced the worst declines in their 450-million-year history, what's driving it?

by Dr. David Shiffman - Tuesday, Jun 10th, 2025

Image credit: Universal Studios.

Steven Spielberg’s iconic film Jaws first hit theaters on June 20, 1975 — 50 years ago this month. Based on the bestselling novel by Peter Benchley about a great white shark mauling and killing summer tourists at a Massachusetts beach community, the movie terrified viewers, many of whom blame it for a subsequent lifelong fear of sharks.

New bill seeks to vastly expand Bristol Bay mining protections

If passed, the legislation would protect Bristol Bay salmon from over 20 active mining claims

by Hatch Magazine - Thursday, Jun 5th, 2025

A float plane lands on a river in the Bristol Bay region of Alaska (photo: Earl Harper).

A new bill introduced in the closing hours of Alaska’s legislative session seeks to expand protection for the Bristol Bay region, home to a prolific wild salmon fishery that produces over $2.2 billion in economic output and supports over 15,000 Alaskan jobs. The bill, introduced by Speaker of the House Bryce Edgmon (I- Dillingham) and Representative Andy Josephson (D- Anchorage), would ban metallic sulfide mining, also known as hard-rock mining, throughout the Bristol Bay Fisheries Reserve, where oil and gas development is already banned without approval of the Alaska legislature.

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