Recreational Saltwater Fishing is Under Fire

[LuckyLady]

Recreational Saltwater Fishing is Under Fire

From KEEP AMERICA FISHING

Decades of poor fisheries management and inadequate data are prompting large-scale fishery closures in our nation’s oceans.


Support the Fishery Conservation Transition Act http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/o/63...ction_KEY=2596
and help preserve your right to sustainably fish on our public waters. Poor fisheries management practices tied to the South Atlantic red snapper are prompting a total bottom fishing closure in a 5,000-square-mile area. This will likely be the beginning of a series of marine fisheries “train wrecks” unless Congress takes action.

There is still time to prevent these large-scale, draconian closures.

Send a message to your Members of Congress today http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/o/63...ction_KEY=2596 urging them to support the Fishery Conservation Transition Act and help secure its passage in the current “lame duck” session.

A Pervasive Problem
There is a pervasive perception in this country that our nation’s fisheries - fresh and saltwater - are in dire straits. And too often, when a problem is identified, the solution is to prohibit fishing access to those public resources. We’re seeing that now in the South Atlantic with a proposed sweeping ban on bottom fishing to solve overfishing for red snapper.

[Big Fish Billy]

With Sara as President, we'll have nothing to worry about in this forum......

[gottaflylee]

Hold on...Catch Shares are comming...

[Bud Man]

A blind man could see this coming with PEW Puppet Lubchenko at the wheel. So instead of funding good science lets shut it down until we can figure out what the hell we are doing. Makes sense to me.

[marine4003]

With Sara as President, we'll have nothing to worry about in this forum......

Billy, i think you'd be happy if just her ta-ta's ran..