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Congress Takes Aim at the World's Most Brazen Maritime Cheaters For decades, American fishermen — from the red snapper captains working the Gulf of Mexico to the crab and salmon fleets anchored off Alaska — have watched foreign vessels strip the world's oceans with something close to impunity. The

Frankenfish Rising: How Bowfishing Became the Front Line Against the Chesapeake's Most Notorious Invader After dark on the Potomac River, somewhere near Quantico, Virginia, the water tells a different story than it does in daylight. A boat moves slowly through shallow tributaries. The river buzzes

South Carolina Legalizes UTVs for Public Road Use — Everything You Need to Know For years, side-by-side UTV owners in South Carolina found themselves in an absurd bind. They owned machines worth tens of thousands of dollars — capable, sophisticated vehicles built for serious work and serious terra

The Fish That Broke Washington: How a Red Snapper Season Became a Federal Showdown Somewhere off the coast of St. Augustine, in water roughly 150 feet deep, a red snapper was putting up the kind of fight that keeps saltwater anglers booking charters months in advance. The angler on the other end o

When East Meets Swiss: The Zenith G.F.J. Calibre 135 Double Signed with Naoya Hida & Co. There are moments in watchmaking when two creative forces align so naturally that the result feels less like a collaboration and more like an inevitability. The G.F.J. Calibre 135 Double Signed with Naoya

The Fall of the Reef Donkey: How the Gulf's Greater Amberjack Fishery Collapsed — and What Comes Next For anyone who has ever dropped a heavy jig to the bottom around a Gulf of Mexico oil platform and felt what happens next — the sudden, freight-train surge, the burning drag, the rod bent nearly t

AP Holds the Line: Why Audemars Piguet's Royal Oak Hasn't Flinched After the Swatch Collaboration When word leaked that Audemars Piguet — one of Swiss watchmaking's most sacrosanct institutions — was climbing into bed with Swatch, the collector forums erupted. The very suggestion that a brand whos

From the Dirt Roads to the Shipping Dock: How Off-Road Enthusiasts Are Rethinking the Way They Travel to Trails There was a time when getting to the trailhead was half the adventure. You'd load up your rig, point it west toward Moab or south toward Baja, and spend two days of Interstate grinding g

Seiko's New Astron HAB005J1 and HAB006J1 Are the Most Daring Solar Watches the Brand Has Ever Made There's a particular kind of confidence it takes to drop two premium limited-edition watches with green and pink dials into a market still dominated by black, blue, and gray. Seiko has never been a b

Oregon's PEACE Act: The Ballot Initiative That Would Criminalize Hunting, Fishing, and the American Outdoor Way of Life It started as a fringe idea championed by a small circle of Portland-based animal rights activists. Now it's a genuine political flashpoint with national implications. A petition