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Posted: 3/9/2010 5:18:50 AM EDT
http://sports.espn.go.com/outdoors/saltwater/news/story?id=4975762 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. 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. 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." |
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Posted: 3/9/2010 5:28:23 AM EDT
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The idea is to control anything and everything like they do in Britain.
It's all about subjugation of the people. |
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Posted: 3/9/2010 5:32:19 AM EDT
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They might want to rethink that if they want to reign over all our health care since fish is heart healthy and heart disease is kinda high on our health problem list.
Just sayin 
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Posted: 3/9/2010 5:34:10 AM EDT
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The USSS has got to be shitting razor blades over this clown.
just sayin' |
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Posted: 3/9/2010 5:34:15 AM EDT
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The idea is to control anything and everything like they do in Britain. It's all about subjugation of the people. <––––––––––––––- "We've taken care of everything, the words you read...the songs you sing..........." |
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Posted: 3/9/2010 5:36:37 AM EDT
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Its all about finding new ways to tax Americans. Obama and his leftists believe all money you earn belongs to the government. They only allow you to keep some of it "out of the goodness of their hearts".
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Posted: 3/9/2010 5:39:32 AM EDT
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Fuck it.
Hunters and fishermen should completely boycott the sport for 3 years and let these morons funding dry up. |
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Posted: 3/9/2010 5:39:45 AM EDT
[#7]
Just one more way to take your ability to be independent from the government away from you.
YOU WILL NOT SHOOT THE SHERIFFS DEER. |
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Posted: 3/9/2010 5:41:04 AM EDT
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Quoted: Just one more way to take your ability to be independent from the government away from you. YOU WILL NOT SHOOT THE SHERIFFS DEER. ....and your happiness and enjoyment of life. |
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Posted: 3/9/2010 5:41:12 AM EDT
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FUCK THESE PEOPLE!
I'm so fucking sick of this administration. |
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Posted: 3/9/2010 5:42:20 AM EDT
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Not new. This actually came about under Clinton during his first term. We've been fighting it since then.
It'll never happen. The dems themselves will scream bloody murder. A lot of their constituents depend on the revenue from recreational fishing, the entire gulf coast for example. |
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Posted: 3/9/2010 5:42:47 AM EDT
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Quoted: The USSS has got to be shitting razor blades over this clown. just sayin' I was thinking the same thing. He's nuts and he's pissing off waaaaay too many people on both sides of the fence. |
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Posted: 3/9/2010 5:49:04 AM EDT
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mein fuhrer
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Posted: 3/9/2010 5:52:39 AM EDT
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Insanity has many symptoms
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Posted: 3/9/2010 5:55:57 AM EDT
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Well thats the end of Louisiana.
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Posted: 3/9/2010 5:58:32 AM EDT
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Quoted: Well thats the end of Louisiana. I'm sure there will be exceptions for disadvantaged minorities. You? A white, retired military man? Say good bye to the water. |
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Posted: 3/9/2010 6:02:11 AM EDT
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I haven't said this in a while.
FUCK OBAMA AND HIS COMMY BASTARD ILK Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile |
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Posted: 3/9/2010 6:07:00 AM EDT
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Yeah its been on the fishin boards for a while ... you supposed to reg this year no charge and next year 25 bucks .............. 25 bucks of mine they are not going to get ever .
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Posted: 3/9/2010 6:24:51 AM EDT
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FUCK OBAMA
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Posted: 3/9/2010 6:52:02 AM EDT
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Fuck it. Hunters and fishermen should completely boycott the sport for 3 years and let these morons funding dry up. This! Most people who don't hunt or fish don't even know about Pittman-Robertson and think of hunters and fishermen as exploitive of the environment. |
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Posted: 3/9/2010 7:55:17 AM EDT
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Quoted: Quoted: Fuck it. Hunters and fishermen should completely boycott the sport for 3 years and let these morons funding dry up. This! Most people who don't hunt or fish don't even know about Pittman-Robertson and think of hunters and fishermen as exploitive of the environment. Good point. |
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Posted: 3/9/2010 9:41:14 AM EDT
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They don't have enough agents.
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Posted: 3/9/2010 9:47:38 AM EDT
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Obama administration will accept no more public input...
Nothing new on this one. Elections have consequences. |
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Posted: 3/9/2010 9:49:57 AM EDT
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If I can no longer fish the salmon river I will go bat shit fucking crazy insane with rage
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Posted: 3/9/2010 9:51:14 AM EDT
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If I can no longer fish the salmon river I will go bat shit fucking crazy insane with rage This is one of those things where I will not comply. 
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Posted: 3/9/2010 9:52:34 AM EDT
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When fishing is outlawed, only outlaws will fish!
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Posted: 3/9/2010 9:58:47 AM EDT
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Fuck it, I just won't tell 'em I'm fishing. Let 'em try and enforce it.
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Posted: 3/9/2010 10:06:31 AM EDT
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Dare I say that sport fishing is considered mostly to be the leisure activity of "old White men", so liberals would naturally look for an opportunity to stick a tax funnel in it.
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Posted: 3/9/2010 10:14:12 AM EDT
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Obama is a loon.
The rest of the world is just figuring this out. This is just one more box of ammo to use against him. Obama will be impotent after November. |
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Posted: 3/9/2010 10:19:10 AM EDT
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If I am in any way punished for hunting more than what is required to run fish and game I am going to start poaching. Fuck all these cocksuckers.
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Posted: 3/9/2010 10:25:03 AM EDT
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If I am in any way punished for hunting more than what is required to run fish and game I am going to start poaching. Fuck all these cocksuckers. If it ever does get that bad the game you would be poaching will have two legs. |
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Posted: 3/9/2010 10:30:47 AM EDT
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Quoted: Obama is a loon. The rest of the world is just figuring this out. This is just one more box of ammo to use against him. Obama will be impotent after November. I don't like to wish my time away, but I sure wish November was here already. |
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Posted: 3/9/2010 10:31:21 AM EDT
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The new head of NOAA, Jane Lubchenco, came from the Environmental Defense Fund......that should tell you all you need to know about her position on fishing
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Posted: 3/9/2010 10:31:36 AM EDT
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Quoted: Quoted: If I am in any way punished for hunting more than what is required to run fish and game I am going to start poaching. Fuck all these cocksuckers. If it ever does get that bad the game you would be poaching will have two legs. meat is meat. |
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Posted: 3/9/2010 10:33:16 AM EDT
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The idea is to control anything and everything like they do in Britain. It's all about subjugation of the people. This man gets it. |
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Posted: 3/9/2010 11:05:27 AM EDT
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Just one more way to take your ability to be independent from the government away from you. YOU WILL NOT SHOOT THE SHERIFFS DEER. My first thought when I read it. ETA One day you will be born a felon, just for being alive. |
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Posted: 3/9/2010 11:09:07 AM EDT
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They don't have enough agents. They could kill things like the rental fishing boats. They may not achieve 100% compliance, but they can do some harm. |
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Posted: 3/9/2010 11:16:16 AM EDT
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Dare I say that sport fishing is considered mostly to be the leisure activity of "old White men", so liberals would naturally look for an opportunity to stick a tax funnel in it. Come to Georgia, you will find shitloads of poor black folk fishing for catfish. |
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Posted: 3/9/2010 11:19:37 AM EDT
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Posted: 3/9/2010 11:37:14 AM EDT
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 From my Cold Dead Hands |
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Posted: 3/9/2010 11:46:08 AM EDT
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he nearly destroyed the nations Oyster market just last year, this is just a natural extension of the same type of thinking. As long as its 'for our own good' there is nothing in this world he won't try to control.
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Posted: 3/9/2010 12:06:11 PM EDT
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Fuck Obama |
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Posted: 3/9/2010 12:09:39 PM EDT
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They don't have enough agents. They'll have even less if this goes through. I can't imagine anyone stupid enough to try to enforce this. |
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Posted: 3/9/2010 1:33:38 PM EDT
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Quoted: Frankly I'm tired of hearing that phrase and I don't understand the point of regurgitating it.Obama administration will accept no more public input... Nothing new on this one. Elections have consequences. |
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Posted: 3/9/2010 1:38:10 PM EDT
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They don't have enough agents. Think of all the jobs obama will be able to create |
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Posted: 3/9/2010 2:39:10 PM EDT
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tl;dr
but I don't fish, so I don't care. |
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Posted: 3/9/2010 2:46:21 PM EDT
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Quoted: Quoted: The idea is to control anything and everything like they do in Britain. It's all about subjugation of the people. <––––––––––––––- "We've taken care of everything, the words you read...the songs you sing..........."  |
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Posted: 3/9/2010 2:51:13 PM EDT
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wts pre-ban fishing poles 1k each.. oh wait its to early
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Posted: 3/9/2010 2:51:14 PM EDT
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This is going way beyond being fucked up.
Limit public debate then issue a decree by EO that destroys the livelihood of millions of Americans...WTF. FBHO |
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Posted: 3/9/2010 2:57:05 PM EDT
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Well thats the end of Louisiana. Whatever, we'll do whatever the fuck we want to . We own this state. They can't arrest us all. |
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Posted: 3/9/2010 3:00:48 PM EDT
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I'm laughing at my stepdad, and several other stupid idiots that voted for that shithead......they are major fisherman LOL....motherfucking coming home to roost.
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