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[offshore]

Thank you big Game Fishing Journal for the article in the Nov-Dec issue about Pews deceptive tactics. While times are tough unlike the other magizines that caved in for pews advertising dollars by placing deceptive ads thank you for staying true to your fishing roots. This will be one of the magazines I will renew when the time comes.....................

[mikehalseyjr]

Thank you big Game Fishing Journal for the article in the Nov-Dec issue about Pews deceptive tactics. While times are tough unlike the other magizines that caved in for pews advertising dollars by placing deceptive ads thank you for staying true to your fishing roots. This will be one of the magazines I will renew when the time comes.....................

I got that copy in the mail about two weeks ago, read that artical and text'ed Capt. Len regarding that story and the story about his first trip offshore when he did not realize he had enough fuel half way out. Both fantastic!

Mike

[SteveH2112]

I particularly liked page 52, my new book!

[jawz12]

gotta disagree here...it's a biz,i highly doubt ol' len is gonna turn advertising dollars away in this economy...i dropped my subscription to his mag years ago...

[Captain Rich Adler]

Here's a thought for you guys, the money Pew spends on advertising in our magazines, they can't spend lobbying and buying our politicians. Keep your friends close, your enemies closer.

[offshore]

Here's a thought for you guys, the money Pew spends on advertising in our magazines, they can't spend lobbying and buying our politicians. Keep your friends close, your enemies closer.

No but the moneies they gain from those advertisements sure can and will be spent for lobbying and buying our politicians..

[Captain Rich Adler]

Offshore- what monies raised ?? no fisherman is supporting them. The money they are spending doesn't come from us, it's coming from the "conservation" groups.

[HutchJr]

>> it's a biz,i highly doubt ol' len is gonna turn advertising dollars away in this economy...i dropped my subscription to his mag years ago...

First ever post here guys, but I thought it was time to chime in – but to paraphrase Capt. Len, “PEW funded environmental groups are the recreational fisherman’s greatest threat.”

You may have your reasons for dropping your subscription to the Big Game Fishing Journal Jaws12, but I can assure you personally that Capt. Len is one of only a handful of sporting publishers I know in the United States that WOULD turn down this blood money.

Big Game Fishing Journal is not a corporate run entity, it’s owned and published by a fisherman – there aren’t many of those out there any longer!

Pew Charitable Trusts is the bank – Pew Environment Group is their action arm. The Pew charitable funds are given directly to many environmental and conservation groups (you’d be surprised to know that IGFA and the Teddy Roosevelt Conservation Partnership are Pew funding recipients, which should be especially troubling to those who believe that Pew doesn't have a foot in the door already), while the Pew Environment Group is the one that focuses on the fisheries management stuff. Together, the Pew entities are working to ramrod their agenda of reduced fishing participation through catch shares and marine reserves.

Pew also contributes tens of millions of dollars to a virtual clearing house for charitable funds, an organization called the Tides Foundation (you FOX news fans know of Tides from Glenn Beck of course!) The Tides Foundation is like a second-tier bank – Tides Foundation recipients like the Center For Biological Diversity (which is trying to ban lead fishing tackle and is attempting to get an ESA listing for bluefin) can then go to Tides Foundation and allows them to stand free of the so-called “Pew influence.”

Big Game Fishing Journal readers of course are well aware of this insidious takeover by radical zealots, because Capt. Len Belcaro is one of the few American magazine publishers willing to put it on the line in defense of our fishing community having published factual information about Pew for some time, where other corporate print types were doing puff pieces.

You can assume what you want – “would he or wouldn’t he?” Bottom line is, Capt. Len answered that question already when he opened fire on the preservationist ideologues and started hammering away at their anti-fishing agenda in print!

Jim Hutchinson, Jr. (RFA)

[gottaflylee]

Think about this...

WallMart has earmarked 7.5 mil to help push "Catch Shares" through.
Know why...Catch Shares will effect every one of us before it is over. We all will need Shares to keep fish. WallMart wants to sell us Shares. Think about that next time you walk into their doors...

[mako moron]

>> it's a biz,i highly doubt ol' len is gonna turn advertising dollars away in this economy...i dropped my subscription to his mag years ago...

First ever post here guys, but I thought it was time to chime in – but to paraphrase Capt. Len, “PEW funded environmental groups are the recreational fisherman’s greatest threat.”

You may have your reasons for dropping your subscription to the Big Game Fishing Journal Jaws12, but I can assure you personally that Capt. Len is one of only a handful of sporting publishers I know in the United States that WOULD turn down this blood money.

Big Game Fishing Journal is not a corporate run entity, it’s owned and published by a fisherman – there aren’t many of those out there any longer!

Pew Charitable Trusts is the bank – Pew Environment Group is their action arm. The Pew charitable funds are given directly to many environmental and conservation groups (you’d be surprised to know that IGFA and the Teddy Roosevelt Conservation Partnership are Pew funding recipients, which should be especially troubling to those who believe that Pew doesn't have a foot in the door already), while the Pew Environment Group is the one that focuses on the fisheries management stuff. Together, the Pew entities are working to ramrod their agenda of reduced fishing participation through catch shares and marine reserves.

Pew also contributes tens of millions of dollars to a virtual clearing house for charitable funds, an organization called the Tides Foundation (you FOX news fans know of Tides from Glenn Beck of course!) The Tides Foundation is like a second-tier bank – Tides Foundation recipients like the Center For Biological Diversity (which is trying to ban lead fishing tackle and is attempting to get an ESA listing for bluefin) can then go to Tides Foundation and allows them to stand free of the so-called “Pew influence.”

Big Game Fishing Journal readers of course are well aware of this insidious takeover by radical zealots, because Capt. Len Belcaro is one of the few American magazine publishers willing to put it on the line in defense of our fishing community having published factual information about Pew for some time, where other corporate print types were doing puff pieces.

You can assume what you want – “would he or wouldn’t he?” Bottom line is, Capt. Len answered that question already when he opened fire on the preservationist ideologues and started hammering away at their anti-fishing agenda in print!

Jim Hutchinson, Jr. (RFA)

Great first post Jim. Couldnt have said it better. Hopefully we can all unite and fight with each other and not against each other. Big game fishing journal is my go to local mag.