"going with the flow"....like this?
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."
here are a couple of other worthy reads regarding Pew and the "no-take" zones...how they get implemented and in which direction the "flow" is quickly moving...
Sport Fishing
Did environmentalists screw up with the Marine Life Protection Act? | News & Culture in The North Bay
this National Angler Registry has simply given the feds the ability to bypass the various rec. groups that may lobby or otherwise put up a stink with regard to closures or curtailments of access....the feds can now claim to have accurate and up to date scientific data through direct contact based on random calls to area fishermen that these groups sometimes represent and in fact have better data than the anecdotal evidence from little fishing clubs/organizations ...read the NOAA justification for this registry..."create and angler phone book"
The registry will serve as a national “phone book” of anglers, allowing NOAA to quickly and easily reach current fishermen to learn about their most recent fishing activities. That information is a crucial part of our ability to estimate the health of fish stocks, and to check that protections put in place to preserve fisheries will be fair, effective, and based on sound science. The registry is also a tool for recreational fishermen. As the first comprehensive accounting of the scope of recreational saltwater fishing in the U.S., it will help to more fully demonstrate anglers’ economic, conservation and marine stewardship impacts. ....read any of the accounts from Australia to the US West Coast, the Gulf and you will find the common theme that the rec fishermen/sport are being ignored, they won't need to hear from the angling groups, we've already contacted the members ourselves....thank you...goodbye..hang up or wait on hold for the next available activist/bureaucrat