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So Pres. Barack Obama’s “Interagency Ocean Policy Task Force” has decided that the opinions of America’s 60 million anglers aren’t worthy of its consideration. This task force, headed by the chair of the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ), was charged with drafting a national ocean policy of marine spatial planning to manage U.S. ocean territory and the Great Lakes. Its recommendations — due out later this month — could be enacted by executive order. Here’s why anglers, and freedom-loving Americans, should be alarmed: Without input from recreational anglers and the conservation groups that represent them — such as Trout Unlimited,...
Published on Thursday 11th of March 2010 01:09:41 PM
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Posted by admin! / Under Fishing
The statists now consider whether Americans shall be allowed recreational fishing! Out of my cold dead fingers will they take my rod and reel! They prepare to forge yet another link in the ever-lengthening chain that arrests our freedoms. They make claim on our water, our food, our ability to farm, ranch, fish… our travel, our health, and the very air we breathe! So, on queue, an acquaintance e-mailed a “patriotic” You-Tube video, directed at our “leaders,” and about “WE the People.” Yes, that video is a great piece of drama—and great propaganda. But how deep goes our resolve in...
Published on Thursday 11th of March 2010 01:09:41 PM
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Posted by admin! / Under Fishing
The Obama administration has proposed using United Nations-guided principles to expand a type of zoning to coastal and even some inland waters. That’s raising concerns among fishermen that their favorite fishing holes may soon be off-limits for bait-casting. In the battle of incremental change that epitomizes the American conservation movement, many weekend anglers fear that the Obama administration’s promise to “fundamentally change” water management in the US will erode what they call the public’s “right to fish,” in turn creating economic losses for the $82 billion recreational fishing industry and a further deterioration of the American outdoorsman’s legacy...
Published on Thursday 11th of March 2010 01:09:41 PM
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Apparently, the story at Red State ("Obama: The Will Of The People Be Damned - I’LL Decide Who Can Go Fishing") has touched a nerve on liberal websites. They are now claiming that it's all a hoax and there's absolutely no truth to it. Here's an example:President Obama, though remains in news but this time, there is a different reason for his being in news. Anti-Obama extremists are going mad and wild against him and every time, they try to hit him through different angles and issues. Although, that’s not a critical matter yet some people are going just crazy...
Published on Thursday 11th of March 2010 01:09:41 PM
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Posted by admin! / Under Fishing
It all started here this morning: 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. I had to read that 3 times before it sank in…and then I did a little research. Guess what old Barack (I’ve never had a fishing rod in my hand a day in my life) Obama has been up to since last year? Plotting a Federal takeover of all our bodies of water (freshwater…saltwater…doesn’t matter), in an effort to set up MORE bureaucracies...
Published on Thursday 11th of March 2010 01:09:41 PM
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Posted by admin! / Under Fishing
I simply cannot believe my eyes today. The EPA with the stalwart support of the Obama administration wants to, wait for it, ban all sport fishing in the US. You heard me right – how to thoroughly piss off about 60,000,000 fishermen and women. And here’s a newsflash – many of them are gun owners… Snip My Dad was an avid fisherman. Most of my friends fish and I enjoy fishing. I don’t think they will stand for this – not at all… Do you know how many jobs this will cost us? Fishermen and hunters provide a lot of...
Published on Thursday 11th of March 2010 01:09:41 PM
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I’m gonna put myself in the President’s shoes for a minute here. I have a plummeting approval rating, a congress that doesn’t trust me, my chief of staff is getting naked and tickling men in the shower, and on top of all this I’m going to go ahead and piss off all the people in this country who enjoy fishing. I mean this guy really must not like being president, because at this rate I’m not sure if Michelle even likes him anymore.
Published on Thursday 11th of March 2010 01:09:41 PM
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"...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...
Published on Thursday 11th of March 2010 01:09:41 PM
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