Native Fish Coalition

Native Fish Coalition is a nonpartisan, volunteer, non-profit dedicated to the conservation, preservation, and restoration of native fish.  Unlike other organizations, Native Fish Coalition focuses on fish, not fishing.  They are solely concerned with wild native fish and do not get involved with nonnative or stocked fish, unless they are impacting wild native fish.  While most of their members are avid anglers, and many fishing industry insiders, the focus of the organization is to inform, educate, regulate, research, restore and reclaim wild native trout populations, not promote fishing.

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Native Fish Coalition believes that no stream, river, pond or lake is truly healthy or “restored” until its full complement of native species is intact, and it is devoid of nonnative species and hatchery-raised fish.  The complete restoration of native species assemblages and the removal of nonnative fish is often not attainable, or practical.  It is however a starting point and general blueprint for where we can make a difference.  While their mission is absolute, their execution of that mission is pragmatic and based on reality and likelihood of success as much as ideology.  The organization primarily focuses (but is not limited to) on headwater, lake and pond, and sea-run brook trout, Arctic charr, Atlantic salmon, stream-resident bass, minnows, and non-game species.  Native Fish Coalition brings a much-needed and long overdue native-only and multi-species focus to fish conservation, along with the willingness to address fish as well as the habitats they live in.  Currently, Native Fish Coalition has chapters in 11 states: Alabama, Connecticut, Georgia, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Vermont, and West Virginia.  The organization is made up of experienced activists, scientists, authors, writers, bloggers, subject matter experts, technical/financial experts, fishing guides and outfitters, academics, and people who have a passion for and commitment to wild native fish.

Listen to the Orvis Fly Fishing Podcast with Tom Rosenbauer, as he interviews Native Fish Coalition Executive Director Bob Mallard in regard to native fish, the native fish movement, and native Fish Coalition. 

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Executive Director Bob Mallard and National Vice Chair Emily Bastian joined the Fly Fishing Journeys podcast, listen here.

Listen to Chair Ted Williams on the Fly Fishing Podcast.

Visit their webpage: www.nativefishcoalition.org
Instagram: @nativefishcoalition
Facebook: /nativefishcoalition
Youtube: Native Fish Coalition
Email: info@NativeFishCoalition.org

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