A legislative hold is delaying Maryland’s 2026 striped bass season rules, pitting catch-and-release anglers against charter ...
The state's rockfish season will start in April as scheduled, after it was almost derailed this week by a legislative ...
A legislative committee is holding up new rockfish regulations from the Maryland Department of Natural Resources that would open a catch-and-release fishery in April for the first time in several ...
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August ban, April fishing: Rockfish regs advance

ANNAPOLIS — Maryland Department of Natural Resources officials received approval March 11, 2026, from the General Assembly’s ...
SAN FRANCISCO – Fishing for striped bass and halibut was outstanding in San Francisco Bay over the Labor Day weekend, while angling for deep water rockfish was superb at the Rittenburg Bank and other ...
Now that we’ve saved the fish, can we save the fishermen? The Pacific rockfish went from near ubiquity to nearly endangered, but today it is a sustainability success story. On top of that, it is ...
For West Coast commercial fishermen and seafood lovers, there is reason to cheer. Rockfish, a genus of more than 100 tasty species depleted decades ago by excessive fishing, have rebounded from ...