Obama's Latest Assault on Freedom– New Regulations Will Ban Sport Fishing
Posted by Jim Hoft on Tuesday, March 9, 2010, 5:23 AM
More Hope and Change…
Obama’s latest assault on your rights– He wants to ban sport fishing.
Barack Obama has a message for America’s 60,000,000 anglers– We don’t need you.
The American Sportfishing Association reported back in October about the sweeping changes proposed by the Obama Administration in regards to the sport fishing industry:
A sweeping oceans and Great Lakes management policy document proposed by the Obama Administration will have a significant impact on the sportfishing industry, America’s saltwater anglers and the nation’s coastal communities. The draft policy, the Interim Report of the Interagency Ocean Policy Task Force, issued on September 17, will govern federal Pacific and Atlantic Ocean waters and Great Lakes resource conservation and management and will coordinate these efforts among federal, state and local agencies. This past June, President Obama created the Interagency Ocean Policy Task Force, led by the Chair of the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ), to develop a draft national policy and implementation strategy for conserving and managing the United States ocean territory and the Great Lakes.
Now it looks like the Obama Administration is going to move ahead with these restrictions.
ESPN reported:
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…
“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.
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Stephana commented:
Bring it. Stupid is what stupid does. Pick on the fisherman, that happen to hunt.
Sy commented:
Does anyone have an idea how many jobs are on the line? It has to be millions. The manufacturers of the equipment, the eateries all along the Jersey shore, the party boats, the outfitters, the campgrounds, the guides out west, the boat rentals, the bass channel, the magazines, the worm farms, the taxidermists, Cabellas, the restaurents around every lake, the guys that drive thd trucks to stock the lakes, the … And for what?
Opus #6 commented:
This is all part of the Obama Daily Outrage.
jainphx commented:
This guy really believes he’s the “ONE” next he will call for taxes on the air we breath.
Hey 52% how you like the hope and change now! For the first time in my life I can say I’m ashamed of my country. This guy brings shame where ever he goes, just go away and take your shame with you.
Brian72 commented:
This is shocking in one sense, but not at all surprising given who we are talking about here.
Who might be able to bring public awareness to this issue in order to preserve the American tradition of feeding families from nature’s bounty?
Who might be well suited to inspire and then lead a people’s revolt against this type of regulatory tyranny?
Who could bring the American public’s attention to this liberty killing power grab, and point out that if sport fishing regulation of this type is successful, then how far behind will on-land hunting be, and ultimately the Second Amendment itself?
Who might be capable of being the American people’s Anti-Obama, so that the White House will have no choice but to hear them loud and clear?
Who would have instant credibility with the fishing industry, the sport hunting industry, the Second Amendment activists, and combine that with a high public profile and appeal to change the center of gravity in the debate for the better?
You get one guess, and it’s not John Kerry.
NYC Conservative commented:
This is aimed at Dick Cheney, who is known to be an avid fisherman.
Glockfixer commented:
Does Obama want us to get our fish and everything else that we need from the Government? What is he? Some kind of socialist? Certainly that can’t be it. The MSM said he is moderate and NOT a socialist! They wouldn’t lie about that due to some agenda, would they?
anony commented:
You are crazy. Certifiably crazy.
Ban sport fishing? You’ve lost what little of a mind that you had.
LL commented:
He governs best who governs least. We know that this administration has an intent interpose government into EVERY aspect of our lives. It’s part of socialism – it’s the sort of thing a socialist feels is good because of the underlying assumption that people are too stupid to do anything for themselves.
People voted poorly when they put this president and Congress into office. They can reverse the trend in November or they can accept every job will one day be a “government job”.
Brian72 commented:
“This is aimed at Dick Cheney, who is known to be an avid fisherman.”
You guessed wrong. There is one person who is perfectly positioned right now to take this on and force the administration to either reverse course, or get extremely heavy political damage as the price for going ahead.
I’ll give a hint. This would be excellent subject matter for a one hour expose documentary report program to be aired throughout the weekend on Fox News Channel.
Sy commented:
NYC Conservative #6 -
In other words: it’s Bush’s fault.
Grace Perry commented:
OMG, another niche in his anti-freedom belt, he wont stop until he is crowned KING!
jainphx commented:
We passed on the insanity of Al Gore, refused the anti-Americanism of John Effen Kerry, but somehow we voted for someone that is both, go figure.
aprilnovember811 commented:
Oh heck, why not just abolish the Constitution and everything else by executive order. God, I hope that when he……..I better not say what I hope for this guy, but I hope it. Go to Indonesia, and be met with evil Barack, that’s all I want to say.
unfatmatt commented:
I don’t know about the rest of the country, but here in the South, fishermen are also GUN OWNERS.
Brian72 commented:
Ok, guessing time is up.
Sarah Palin. This is tailor made for her, given her background and public profile, and access to the media focus, both friendly and hostile.
She would destroy them on this, no doubt in my mind whatsoever.
Having been Governor of Alaska, which has more marine coastline than all 49 other states combined, and 3 million freshwater lakes, plus rivers and streams all over the place, she is uniquely positioned to be the point person for opposition to this insanity.
She is a commercial and sport fisherman, avid hunter, and Second Amendment advocate with experience running the state that depends on these industries for it’s economy more than any other. She can focus attention on the consequences, both to the economies of states like Alaska, and to erosion of Constitutional freedoms for all Americans.
The MSM would have no choice but to try and attack her to knock her down, but the attention will boomerang on them because, like most other things, she is on the side of %70-80 of Americans, where Obama and his people are not.
Paging Sarah Palin, your country needs you again.
anony commented:
LL,
“He governs best who governs least.”
Except of course, when it comes to womens bodies. Then it is of utmost importance for the government to make laws to deny any freedom.
anon commented:
jainphx
March 9th, 2010 | 8:40 am | #4
This guy really believes he’s the “ONE” next he will call for taxes on the air we breath.
Carbon tax.
I agree with the first comment. Obama (and the rest of his environmental cronies like to pick on the people with guns. Darn that 2nd amendment huh, Barry?
KR commented:
Well, the lefties were never about teaching a man to fish.
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