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Title: Culled Out (Zero Admin May Ban Fishing)
Source: ESPN
URL Source: http://sports.espn.go.com/outdoors/saltwater/news/story?id=4975762
Published: Mar 10, 2010
Author: Robert Montgomery
Post Date: 2010-03-10 08:07:41 by reaganisright
Keywords: Obama, Fishing, Socialism
Views: 2656
Comments: 19

I heard about this on an outdoors radio show two and 1/2 weeks ago, it's just getting national attention.

And I'm posting something other than football and baseball!


The Obama administration will accept no more public input for a federal strategy that could prohibit U.S. citizens from fishing some of the nation's oceans, coastal areas, Great Lakes, and even inland waters.

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."

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."

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."

This is an opinion column from Robert Montgomery. As a Senior Writer for BASS Publications, Montgomery has written about conservation, environment, and access issues for more than two decades.


I think Zero has really gone over the edge with this one. Try to take a little girl's Barbie fishing pole and see how popular you are with her.

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#1. To: reaganisright (#0)

Guess I'll have to take a gun fishing. Maybe get some hunting in too.

A K A Stone  posted on  2010-03-10   8:11:01 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: A K A Stone (#1)

Ten bucks and my left nut says that a) this is over stated and b) it will never happen.

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war  posted on  2010-03-10   8:22:16 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: reaganisright (#0)

The Obama administration will accept no more public input for a federal strategy that could prohibit U.S. citizens from fishing some of the nation's oceans, coastal areas, Great Lakes, and even inland waters.

I would sure hate to be one of those Fish and Game people if this becomes fact. All the coastal fishing restrictions that occurred under the Bushies and now this! Maybe Obama doesn't realize many of his supporters like to fish too and not just from the Berkeley pier.

mininggold  posted on  2010-03-10   12:05:02 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: mininggold (#3)

So totally unenforceable as to be a joke...this is a "Death Panel" moment for fishermen...

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war  posted on  2010-03-10   12:37:55 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#5. To: reaganisrightm Boofer, Fred Mertz (#0)

Well...if it is true, Boofer will be able to go swimming again...

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war  posted on  2010-03-10   12:39:00 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#6. To: war (#5)

lol

(I had to read it twice, but then lol)

So why do you bother soiling this site with your vacuous and inane commentary? ... yukon haha lots of laughing out loud

Biff Tannen  posted on  2010-03-10   13:05:34 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#7. To: A K A Stone (#1)

Guess I'll have to take a gun fishing. Maybe get some hunting in too.

Just about everyone, where I live, already does that.

eskimo  posted on  2010-03-10   13:54:36 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#8. To: war (#4)

So totally unenforceable as to be a joke...this is a "Death Panel" moment for fishermen...

Some of the local farm ponds are great for Crappie fishing. I hope it doesn't affect those too. lolol

mininggold  posted on  2010-03-10   14:45:51 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#9. To: mininggold (#8)

Some of the local farm ponds are great for Crappie fishing. I hope it doesn't affect those too. lolol

I love crappie fishing. About 10 years ago Grand Lake St. Marys used to have great crappie fishing. They would bight as fast as you could bait your hook. Then they stocked it with walleye. I've never caught a walleye and barely catch crappies anymore. It is still great for catfish.

A K A Stone  posted on  2010-03-10   14:49:16 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#10. To: A K A Stone (#9)

I love crappie fishing. About 10 years ago Grand Lake St. Marys used to have great crappie fishing. They would bight as fast as you could bait your hook. Then they stocked it with walleye. I've never caught a walleye and barely catch crappies anymore. It is still great for catfish.

Many years ago I snuck into a reservoir where the big mouth bass and crappie would literally jump into the boat they were so hungry for action. Can't do it anymore now since the Bushies now have the area all full of cameras and sensors as part of the Patriot Act.

mininggold  posted on  2010-03-10   14:56:14 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#11. To: mininggold (#10)

Can't do it anymore now since the Bushies now have the area all full of cameras and sensors as part of the Patriot Act.

Really? I didn't realize their fascist regime reached out that far.

Fred Mertz  posted on  2010-03-10   14:59:54 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#12. To: Fred Mertz (#11)

Really? I didn't realize their fascist regime reached out that far.

Every municipal reservoir in the state is now wired and part of a large security/satellite network. Our 'beloved' Patriot Act at work.

mininggold  posted on  2010-03-10   15:04:34 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#13. To: A K A Stone, mininggold (#9) (Edited)

We used to walk down to the Ohio River under either the West End or Esplen bridges with our poles and socks of doughball and fish for carp...the river smelled funny and was dirty but we'd pull some pretty big ones out. Every now and again we'd hit a cat or a walleye - the latter coming down the Allegheny - most likely from Kinzua. We did pull out a couple of mystery fish too...one, to this day, I think was a small muskie but the guy who caught it thinks it was a very large Rainbow and then there was one that I thought was a Rainbow trout but an old man who watched us pull it out told us it was Northern Pike.

Anyway, as we got more into our teen years it was just an excuse to smoke pot but man we had fun.

Went years without missing an opening day for trout - second Saturday in April.

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war  posted on  2010-03-10   16:25:18 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#14. To: war (#13)

it was just an excuse to smoke pot

A K A Stone  posted on  2010-03-10   16:30:24 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#15. To: A K A Stone (#14)

edited it as some memories came back...

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#16. To: A K A Stone (#14)

Walleye:

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#17. To: A K A Stone (#14)

I don't know how old you are but do you know what this is?

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#18. To: war (#17)

I don't know. It looks like one of those things the coyote tried to blow up the road runner with.

A K A Stone  posted on  2010-03-10   18:57:45 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#19. To: A K A Stone (#18) (Edited)

HA!!!! >p> More tomorrow...out with customers tonight...too much wine...

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