FISHERMEN TO MARCH ON WASHINGTON, DC
For Immediate Release, December 10, 2009:
Recreational and commercial fishermen, support business owners, families, and community leaders will gather at the steps of our Nation’s Capitol on February 24, 2010 from noon to 3 PM to show congress a united front of the impacts caused by the unintended impacts of the Magnuson Stevens Conservation and Management Act as revised effective January, 2007 (RMSA). The overly restrictive management requirements created by the RMSA based on non scientific arbitrary deadlines are forcing anglers off the water, eliminating commercial fishing, preventing consumers from purchasing locally caught fresh seafood, destroying small family businesses, increasing unemployment, and adversely affecting coastal communities.
We fully support real science based management and the conservation of our marine resources while also being able to sustain recreational and commercial fishing activities, providing locally caught seafood, sustaining small family businesses, and supporting our coastal communities. Please stay tuned as the details are being developed and will be provided. Make your plans to join us for this historic event and work with us in a United effort from coast to coast.
UNITED WE FISH and FISHING MATTERS
CCGF urges all elected officials to work together and to join the efforts by the leaders of other coastal states for the best interests of our coastal communities and the Nation.
This effort is being coordinated by many organizations and individuals including but not limited to CCGF, RFA, FRA, United Boatmen of New York, United Boatmen of New Jersey, MSSA and more to be announced.
CCGF is a 501(c) (6) non profit that represents recreational for-hire vessel owners and operators, supporting businesses, and recreational anglers from the Gulf of Mexico
Saturday, December 19, 2009
Friday, December 18, 2009
News on Red Snapper Ban
I just got this information today 12/17/09.
Marine Fisheries has moddified the Red Snapper no harvest area. The area still includes South Carolina, Georgia and Florida. Instead of using 66 feet as the beginning dept, it is now set to be from 98 feet to a depth of 300 feet. This will reduce the no harvest area considerably.
We can thank recreational groups as the RFA
Marine Fisheries has moddified the Red Snapper no harvest area. The area still includes South Carolina, Georgia and Florida. Instead of using 66 feet as the beginning dept, it is now set to be from 98 feet to a depth of 300 feet. This will reduce the no harvest area considerably.
We can thank recreational groups as the RFA
Monday, December 14, 2009
Hijacking Fisheries Management
HIJACKING FISHERIES MANAGEMENT
How Pew Charitable Trusts has co-opted the management process using paid-for science and a well-oiled media machine.
In late 2006, “Fisheries Face Collapse by 2048!” was the headline read and heard around the world – at least in the world of Washington, DC. It just so happens that Congress was debating the reauthorization of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act at that precise moment. The press stories sighted a study led by Dr. Boris Worm of Dalhousie University. While objective observers might question elements of the study, it was the media hype that the Pew Charitable Trusts (“Pew” or “the Trust”) wanted out there as part of a carefully orchestrated campaign to influence the Congressional debate on the Nation’s primary fisheries law. Dr. Worm, a regular recipient of funding from Pew, working with SeaWeb, a Pew-funded public research group that specializes in media campaigns, worked on the message and the timing to get as much media coverage as possible. They were successful. Big media loves a crisis, and when you have the money and the manpower it’s easy to plant a good fish tale.
Dr. Worm’s article was quickly labeled by top fisheries scientists and managers for what it really was – a Pew advocacy piece like much of his prior work funded by the Trust. The kicker at the end of the piece calling for “no-fishing marine reserves” as the cure was the final giveaway, a goal high on the agenda of most Pew funded organizations! Worm’s work in the past had been branded “invalid”, “misleading” and “undermining the trust placed in science.” As it turns out this was a textbook study in disseminating misinformation disguised as science to a willing media with the express purpose of influencing Congressional debate. Such scare tactics have become the darling of the radical environmental movement.
The media firestorm was part of a broader, coordinated attack that included misleading ad campaigns aimed at smearing key politicians facing re-election. The targeted Members of Congress just happened to be those involved in crafting scientifically sound legislation that also recognized the needs of recreational fishermen and industry. This campaign was led by another Pew-funded environmental group, the Marine Fish Conservation Network.
How Pew Charitable Trusts has co-opted the management process using paid-for science and a well-oiled media machine.
In late 2006, “Fisheries Face Collapse by 2048!” was the headline read and heard around the world – at least in the world of Washington, DC. It just so happens that Congress was debating the reauthorization of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act at that precise moment. The press stories sighted a study led by Dr. Boris Worm of Dalhousie University. While objective observers might question elements of the study, it was the media hype that the Pew Charitable Trusts (“Pew” or “the Trust”) wanted out there as part of a carefully orchestrated campaign to influence the Congressional debate on the Nation’s primary fisheries law. Dr. Worm, a regular recipient of funding from Pew, working with SeaWeb, a Pew-funded public research group that specializes in media campaigns, worked on the message and the timing to get as much media coverage as possible. They were successful. Big media loves a crisis, and when you have the money and the manpower it’s easy to plant a good fish tale.
Dr. Worm’s article was quickly labeled by top fisheries scientists and managers for what it really was – a Pew advocacy piece like much of his prior work funded by the Trust. The kicker at the end of the piece calling for “no-fishing marine reserves” as the cure was the final giveaway, a goal high on the agenda of most Pew funded organizations! Worm’s work in the past had been branded “invalid”, “misleading” and “undermining the trust placed in science.” As it turns out this was a textbook study in disseminating misinformation disguised as science to a willing media with the express purpose of influencing Congressional debate. Such scare tactics have become the darling of the radical environmental movement.
The media firestorm was part of a broader, coordinated attack that included misleading ad campaigns aimed at smearing key politicians facing re-election. The targeted Members of Congress just happened to be those involved in crafting scientifically sound legislation that also recognized the needs of recreational fishermen and industry. This campaign was led by another Pew-funded environmental group, the Marine Fish Conservation Network.
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
Welcome
Welcome to The site for protecting Florida Anglers right to fish. This will be a fishing and political blog, meaning I will state how I feel that politics alone with other government appointed commissions are affecting our rights and freedoms.
Above I use the word rights, but fishing is not really a right, but a privilege. You do not have the right to keep all the Reds that you can catch, nor blues, trout and many other species. If you break these rules you can be fined or even arrested. So you have the privilege to fish as long as you follow the rules.
With this though in mind, we depend on our elected officials to pass laws that are sound and will be followed by the appointed officials when making decisions affecting our privilege of fishing. President Obama is doing all that he can to circumvent the legislative process. Read what the RFA has to say:
12 MILLION U.S. SALTWATER ANGLERS IGNORED
NEW FEDERAL ATTEMPTS TO CIRCUMVENT LEGISLATIVE PROCESS
A recently published federal taskforce report is causing a great deal of concern for America’s
recreational fishing community. For longtime members of the Recreational Fishing Alliance
(RFA) however, the claim that saltwater anglers have been kept out of the review process is
nothing especially new. According to the RFA however, it’s good to see the national sportfishing
industry starting to report it as passionately as coastal stakeholders have for the past few years.
The report from the president’s newly appointed Interagency Oceans Policy Task Force outlines
a federal initiative that could conceivably pave the way for more restrictive governmental actions
in further denying access to recreational anglers, similar to what’s already been accomplished in
California with the marine life protection act (MLPA).
Above I use the word rights, but fishing is not really a right, but a privilege. You do not have the right to keep all the Reds that you can catch, nor blues, trout and many other species. If you break these rules you can be fined or even arrested. So you have the privilege to fish as long as you follow the rules.
With this though in mind, we depend on our elected officials to pass laws that are sound and will be followed by the appointed officials when making decisions affecting our privilege of fishing. President Obama is doing all that he can to circumvent the legislative process. Read what the RFA has to say:
12 MILLION U.S. SALTWATER ANGLERS IGNORED
NEW FEDERAL ATTEMPTS TO CIRCUMVENT LEGISLATIVE PROCESS
A recently published federal taskforce report is causing a great deal of concern for America’s
recreational fishing community. For longtime members of the Recreational Fishing Alliance
(RFA) however, the claim that saltwater anglers have been kept out of the review process is
nothing especially new. According to the RFA however, it’s good to see the national sportfishing
industry starting to report it as passionately as coastal stakeholders have for the past few years.
The report from the president’s newly appointed Interagency Oceans Policy Task Force outlines
a federal initiative that could conceivably pave the way for more restrictive governmental actions
in further denying access to recreational anglers, similar to what’s already been accomplished in
California with the marine life protection act (MLPA).
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