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Local authorized vendors for Resident & Non-Resident Angling Licenses, Resident Hunting Licenses, and Resident Moose Draw Applications: Sunny Corner – Sunny Corner Irving, 836-7710 Miramichi – Curtis Corner Irving, 627-1510 Miramichi – Miramichi Pronature, 622-1818 Blackville – Curtis Miramichi River Outfitters, 843-2481 Doaktown – The Ledges Inn, 365-1820 Napan – City Limits Convenience Store Ltd.,…

This week saw two stories and an editorial on the 2016 Atlantic salmon recreational fishery season in the local and provincial newspapers. Liberal MP for Miramichi-Grand lake, Pat Finnegan, says that he would be surprised if the wall to wall catch and release regulations introduced last summer in response to record low fish counts ended…

You will find below the web link to access the online survey for the development of the 2016 Atlantic salmon Recreational Fishing Management Plan in Salmon Fishing Areas 15, 16 and 18. http://www.glf.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/Gulf/FAM/Recreational-Fisheries/2016-atlantic-salmon-survey You are invited to distribute this link to your respective community and group membership. The consultation period ends on February 29, 2016.

Click the Link below to read an article printed in many New Brunswick papers over the last couple of days regarding a new website which, among other things, lists reasons, they feel, to oppose the mandatory release of grilse on the Miramichi River system. MSA President Mark Hambrook is also quoted. Miramichi Fly Fishermen Fight Ottawa’s…