Tippets: Students of Bonefish, AMFF Conservation Symposium, Lake Erie Algae Bloom, Free-Flowing Yampa

November 18, 2015 By: Erin Block

  • Justin Lewis, Bahamas initiative manager for the Bonefish and Tarpon Trust, spoke to students at Lucaya International School about the recreational bonefish fishery in the Bahamas. The students also participated in a field trip to local flats where they helped with BTT’s bonefish tag-recapture program. Read more via BTT.
  • Videos from The American Museum of Fly Fishing’s 2015 Deborah Pratt Dawson Conservation Symposium are now available to view via Vimeo. The event marked the first time core conservation organizations Trout Unlimited, American Rivers, Batten Kill Watershed Alliance, Bonefish & Tarpon Trust, Atlantic Salmon Federation, and Interfluve came together to discussed shared concerns and strategies.
  • Adding to the many environmental problems facing Lake Erie, this year’s toxic algae bloom was reported as the most severe this century. “Lake Erie is the most dramatic example of how water quality suffers as a result of phosphorus pollution, and how those problems get even worse as the climate changes,” writes Rob Moore. “Lake Erie’s condition serves as a warning we shouldn’t ignore.” Via Switchboard NRDC.
  • John Fielder, nature photographer and conservationist, says the best thing to be done for the Yampa River is “nothing at all.” Read more about why it’s important to keep this river in Colorado free-flowing, via Vail Daily.