The state's rockfish season will start in April as scheduled, after it was almost derailed this week by a legislative ...

A fight over Maryland’s 2026 rockfish season is pitting catch-and-release anglers against charter operators and others in the ...

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 ...

ANNAPOLIS — Maryland Department of Natural Resources officials received approval March 11, 2026, from the General Assembly’s Joint Committee on Administrative, Executive, and Legislative Review for a ...

The wheel turns. Every year we have a slump in the fishing action in and around Monterey Bay around this time. Dungeness are getting skinny and more scarce, rockfish season has yet to begin, halibut ...

A Maryland General Assembly joint committee has approved the Department of Natural Resources proposed changes to the upcoming striped bass fishing season, including a full closure in August.

The first ocean fishing season of 2026 starts Saturday (March 14), with the opening of the bottomfish season in Marine Areas one and two.

On Friday, the National Marine Fisheries Service moved to open all-depth fishing of multiple species of rockfish in federal waters off the coast of most of California, after research earlier this year ...

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 ...