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Offline Alpha Mare

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Feds to 60 Million American Anglers: We don't need you
« on: October 14, 2009, 08:11:30 AM »
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A recently published administration document outlines a structure that could result in closures of sport fishing in salt and freshwater areas across America. The White House created an Interagency Oceans Policy Task Force in June and gave them only 90 days to develop a comprehensive federal policy for all U.S. coastal, ocean and Great Lakes waters. Under the guise of ‘protecting’ these areas, the current second phase of the Task Force direction is to develop zoning which may permanently close vast areas of fishing waters nationwide. This is to be completed by December 9, 2009.


Dave Pfeiffer, President of Shimano American Corporation explained, “In spite of extensive submissions from the recreational fishing community to the Task Force in person and in writing, they failed to include any mention of the over one million jobs or the 6o million anglers which may be affected by the new policies coast to coast. Input from the environmental groups who want to put us off the water was adopted into the report verbatim – the key points we submitted as an industry were ignored.”

Recreational fishing generates a $125 billion annual economy in the United States and supports jobs in every state according to government figures.

The original White House memo and not surprisingly the Task Force report contains multiple references to developing a national policy where Great Lakes and coastal regions are managed, “consistent with international law, including customary international law as reflected in the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea” - a 300-page treaty the U.S. has never ratified.

“We question what implications there will be for state authority and jurisdiction in the Great Lakes and coastal regions if the U.S. adopts the U.N. Treaty,” said Pfeiffer.
http://fish.shimano.com/publish/content/global_fish/en/us/index/articles/feds_to_60_million.html

Every President since Reagan has refused to sign the UN treaty because it gives sovereignty to the UN. 
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In a radio address titled "Ocean Mining" on Oct. 10, 1978, Mr. Reagan applauded the idea that "no nat[ional] interest of ours could justify handing sovereign control of two-thirds of the earth's surface over to the Third World." He added, "No one has ruled out the idea of a [Law of the Sea] treaty -- one which makes sense -- but after long years of fruitless negotiating, it became apparent that the underdeveloped nations who now control the General Assembly were looking for a free ride at our expense -- again."

http://author.heritage.org/Press/Commentary/ed100907d.cfm
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Re: Feds to 60 Million American Anglers: We don't need you
« Reply #1 on: October 14, 2009, 08:13:12 AM »
Oh, I bet the libtards and welfare addicts in Maine are just LOVING this.  Take away fishing/boating, and you've killed much of what little is left of Maine's economy.
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Re: Feds to 60 Million American Anglers: We don't need you
« Reply #2 on: October 14, 2009, 08:15:19 AM »
Oh, I bet the libtards and welfare addicts in Maine are just LOVING this.  Take away fishing/boating, and you've killed much of what little is left of Maine's economy.
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Re: Feds to 60 Million American Anglers: We don't need you
« Reply #3 on: October 14, 2009, 08:50:05 AM »
Yes, keep taking away the ability for the politically apathetic to produce livelihoods and enjoy their hobbies...
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