IF YOU CARE ABOUT FISHING READ THIS NOW Bend Over The Big Ones Comming!

[Tenacious]

At the end of the day sportfishermen.com will go by the way side and ill run some other site.

You mean sportfishermen.com is not forever?

I'm in!!!

[Catch-All]

http://hotair.com/archives/2010/03/0...-or-something/

ESPN is to be commended for exposing the Obama Admin's Oceans Policy Task Force and its extreme anti-fishing agenda. And Michelle Malkin's HotAir.com is to be commended for giving legs to the story but also for including Obama's sack of lies in Sportfishing Magazine's pre-election Q&A

I posted on Hotair.com at 8:01pm 3-09

Get involved. Support the RFA. Write your Congressman and your two Senators.

Mark
Catch-All
Pres., 100 Fathom Fishing Club

[Captcrafton]

I have two young children and a wife and mortgage that all depend on my ability to earn a living in the sportfishing industry that I have been involved with for 16 years. The problems that are occuring on the national level in our government with the elected officials need addressing, but I for one, want to start with my ability to provide for my family, make no mistake I will do it anyway possible. I am in this industry because I chose to be and I don't want some federal agency making career choices for me, but if they do what I fear, they will have the ability to do just that. No outside opinions allowed my big ole hairy ass! They should be forced to listen, THEY ARE SUPPOSED TO WORK FOR US! Tell me how to help and I will, call your elected officials and ask if you can move in with them since they put you out of work. Not for free, tell them you will cut the grass for say $65,000 per year that ought to about cover it.

[canyongear]

By Robert Montgomery
ESPNOutdoors.com
The Obama administration will accept no more public input for a federal strategy that could prohibit U.S. citizens from fishing the nation's oceans, coastal areas, Great Lakes, and even inland waters.
AP/Luis M. AlvarezOne sign at the United We Fish rally at the Capital summed up the feelings of recreational and commercial fishermen.


This announcement comes at the time when the situation supposedly still is "fluid" and the Interagency Ocean Policy Task Force still hasn't issued its final report on zoning uses of these waters.That's a disappointment, but not really a surprise for fishing industry insiders who have negotiated for months with officials at the Council on Environmental Quality and bureaucrats on the task force. These angling advocates have come to suspect that public input into the process was a charade from the beginning.
"When the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) completed their successful campaign to convince the Ontario government to end one of the best scientifically managed big game hunts in North America (spring bear), the results of their agenda had severe economic impacts on small family businesses and the tourism economy of communities across northern and central Ontario," said Phil Morlock, director of environmental affairs for Shimano.
"Now we see NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) and the administration planning the future of recreational fishing access in America based on a similar agenda of these same groups and other Big Green anti-use organizations, through an Executive Order by the President. The current U.S. direction with fishing is a direct parallel to what happened in Canada with hunting: The negative economic impacts on hard working American families and small businesses are being ignored.
"In spite of what we hear daily in the press about the President's concern for jobs and the economy and contrary to what he stated in the June order creating this process, we have seen no evidence from NOAA or the task force that recreational fishing and related jobs are receiving any priority."
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Fisheries In Danger

Consequently, unless anglers speak up and convince their Congressional representatives to stop this bureaucratic freight train, it appears that the task force will issue a final report for "marine spatial planning" by late March, with President Barack Obama then issuing an Executive Order to implement its recommendations — whatever they may be.
Led by NOAA's Jane Lubchenco, the task force has shown no overt dislike of recreational angling, but its indifference to the economic, social and biological value of the sport has been deafening.
Additionally, Lubchenco and others in the administration have close ties to environmental groups who would like nothing better than to ban recreational angling. And evidence suggests that these organizations have been the engine behind the task force since before Obama issued a memo creating it last June.
As ESPN previously reported, WWF, Greenpeace, Defenders of Wildlife, Pew Environment Group and others produced a document entitled "Transition Green" shortly after Obama was elected in 2008. What has happened since suggests that the task force has been in lockstep with that position paper.
Then in late summer, just after he created the task force, these groups produced "Recommendations for the Adoption and Implementation of an Oceans, Coasts, and Great Lakes National Policy." This document makes repeated references to "overfishing," but doesn't once reference recreational angling, its importance, and its benefits, both to participants and the resource.
Additionally, some of these same organizations have revealed their anti-fishing bias by playing fast and loose with "facts," in attempts to ban tackle containing lead in the United States and Canada.
That same tunnel vision, in which recreational angling and commercial fishing are indiscriminately lumped together as harmful to the resource, has persisted with the task force, despite protests by the angling industry.
As more evidence of collusion, the green groups began clamoring for an Executive Order to implement the task force's recommendations even before the public comment period ended in February. Fishing advocates had no idea that this was coming.
Perhaps not so coincidentally, the New York Times reported on Feb. 12 that "President Obama and his team are preparing an array of actions using his executive power to advance energy, environmental, fiscal and other domestic policy priorities."
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Morlock fears that "what we're seeing coming at us is an attempted dismantling of the science-based fish and wildlife model that has served us so well. There's no basis in science for the agendas of these groups who are trying to push the public out of being able to fish and recreate."Conflicts (user) are overstated and problems are manufactured. It's all just an excuse to put us off the water."
In the wake of the task force's framework document, the Congressional Sportsmen's Foundation (CSF) and its partners in the U.S. Recreational Fishing & Boating Coalition against voiced their concerns to the administration.
"Some of the potential policy implications of this interim framework have the potential to be a real threat to recreational anglers who not only contribute billions of dollars to the economy and millions of dollars in tax revenues to support fisheries conservation, but who are also the backbone of the American fish and wildlife conservation ethic," said CSF President Jeff Crane.
Morlock, a member of the CSF board, added, "There are over one million jobs in America supported coast to coast by recreational fishing. The task force has not included any accountability requirements in their reports for evaluating or mitigating how the new policies they are drafting will impact the fishing industry or related economies.
"Given that the scope of this process appears to include a new set of policies for all coastal and inland waters of the United States, the omission of economic considerations is inexcusable."
This is not the only access issue threatening the public's right to fish, but it definitely is the most serious, according to Chris Horton, national conservation director for BASS.
"With what's being created, the same principles could apply inland as apply to the oceans," he said. "Under the guise of 'marine spatial planning' entire watersheds could be shut down, even 2,000 miles up a river drainage from the ocean.
"Every angler needs to be aware because if it's not happening in your backyard today or tomorrow, it will be eventually.
"We have one of the largest voting blocks in the country and we need to use it. We must not sit idly by."

[canyongear]

http://www.conservefish.org/storage/.../rceq73109.pdf

There is enough money between these two groups to fund this rape of the fishing industry, and then some to payoff the special interests, lobbyists and those who have to be "swayed"...just look at the funds behind this, all tax exempt organizations, who pay NO TAXES.

http://www.pewtrusts.org/uploadedFil...l%20public.pdf

http://www.worldwildlife.org/who/fin...yitem15348.PDF

[netman9]

Could the Oboma Administration be thinking of the budget savings if they ban fishing. Are they thinking of all the fish and wildlife officers that could be eliminated if they simplify the regulations to just one law? NO FISHING. Talk about a snow ball effect on the economy, no one is safe.

THANKYOU SFC...STORY IN PROGRESS.

[Roddy Hays]

John,

I'm willing to help as much as I can, notwithstanding the fact that I am not a US citizen and don't live in the country. I can do some of the wordy stuff if you need it.

May I suggest again that someone organises a FaceBook page for this too. Do not underestimate the power of FaceBook. It is a very powerful tool and an extremely effective way of spreading a message very fast through a large network of contacts, using the network itself to do all the work.

Most of you have heard of the British musical impresario Simon Cowell and the TV talent shows he is involved with. A FaceBook page set up at the beginning of December last year by someone opposed to one of Cowell's "disciple's" songs being the UK's Christmas no.1 chart pop hit managed to put another song at the top of the heap by Dec 25th - solely through the message spread by the FaceBook page, which had nearly a million "friends" by the time it was needed. That's one in six British people !! I suspect you will see millions of people become part of this movement if you put a FaceBook page together. You have nothing to lose......
_____________________

ps: you could use the title from the OP here - the "Federal Fishery Strategy" FaceBook page.

AKA : the FFS Facebook Page..... most apt

[offshore]

I think the folks in Washington need to wake up and do what they were elected to do. In this day and age with all the job losses this is the craziest I mean the most asinine thing I have ever heard in my life. They are basically talking about wiping out industries,family businesses, and communities right off the map. The administration should be just doing the opposite and encouraging people to take advantage of what the fine people that make their living in the fishing industries do everyday. What the hell is going on in this country? Are our Representatives listening to the people they represent. I write and write and get the same lame ol form letters back like everyone else. Where is the passion to represent their constituents like they are supposed to do. Yes there are a few that do but the majority we voted into office are on cruise control pushing the party line. Come on Washington DO WHAT YOU WHERE ELECTED TO DO!!! REPRESENT WE THE PEOPLE NOT THEY THE PARTY!!!........Mark Miller

[LuckyLady]

Just amazing that these clowns don't see

No fishing means no tackle shops no marinas no commercial fisheries no service shops no boats sales no brokerage sales no slip rentals no bait shops no travel and tourist area's will sink.. NO A LOT OF THINGS

And what does that mean for OUR struggling economy, what azz hats... Do they not expect our unemployment rates to rise, and tank more than they already have

Idiots, even Bush is probably going WTF At least he fishes and hunts and owns boats ...

[Dave Sikorski]

Could the Oboma Administration be thinking of the budget savings if they ban fishing. Are they thinking of all the fish and wildlife officers that could be eliminated if they simplify the regulations to just one law? NO FISHING. Talk about a snow ball effect on the economy, no one is safe.

THANK YOU SFC...STORY IN PROGRESS.

Absolutely not. It's about CONTROL. No one in the Obama administration gives two shits about budget savings.

The folks that are behind this stuff think they can control the environment while controlling your lives. They are better than you and will control you regardless of what you think, or the consequences to the economy.

They will use every chance they can to gain control. Look at the record thus far.... Climate change/ cap and trade and health care, stimulus that stimulated nothing, and now saviors of the ocean that will use your tax dollars to stop you from going fishing.

They are looking down their noses at all of us and they don't care about you, your job, or your ability to go fishing.

Conservation of fish is as important as conservation of fishermen. Don't think that either extreme is the answer, and certainly don't think that someone else will protect the fish or the fishermen for you. GET INVOLVED.

-D