at it again. Scary stuff here and I have a lot of family in Australia who are extremely upset/concerned about this.
The Australian Government is on the verge of locking all recreational anglers out of over 1.3 million square kilometres of Australias oceans for Marine Parks. These areas include internationally renowned iconic Game and Sport fishing locations such as Shark, Osprey, Marion and Kenn Reefs in the Coral Sea and Geographe Bay, Perth Trench and Dampier in Western Australia. These areas are frequented and experienced by not only Australian recreational anglers but also recreational anglers from all over the world.
Australias recreational anglers have always supported appropriate marine conservation measures based on sound science. In fact, Australian recreational anglers are renowned for their work in marine habitat restoration and marine conservation. However, we have not been provided with any justification as to why recreational anglers should be locked out of these areas.
The Governments proposed Lock out approach to Marine Parks is in response to multinational lobbying lead by the Pew Foundation. Pew has supported a multimillion dollar advocacy and media campaign in Australia that is uncompromising in its approach to lock recreational anglers out of vast areas of Australias oceans.
We have one last opportunity to turn this proposal around and get the Government to base their decisions on science rather than the strong-arming of the anti-fishing lobby. The Australian Government is soon starting a 60-day submission period after which the Government will make a final decision on Marine Park boundaries. If left unchanged, the Government proposal will see these areas locked up to recreational fishing forever.
An organisation called Keep Australia Fishing has been established to manage a Dont Lock Us Out campaign including a write in petition to the Australian government. The petition asks the Australian Government not to lock recreational anglers out of Marine Parks, rather to r
PEW is a sorry sack of shineola,they help pay CCA lobbing efforts.Read Wetland Riders best book regarding domestic hidden agendas helps lead to some International stuff.Helps to be informed.
-Oceana
-The Ocean Conservancy
-PETA
-The Audubon Society
-Environmental Defense Fund
-GreenPeace
-Sea Shepherds
-Save The Manatee Club
-World Wildlife Fund
-Sierra Club
-Clean Ocean Action
-Tides Foundation -Teddy Roosevelt Conservation Coalition (of which CCA, The Billfish Foundation are members. Nice, huh?)
Now why does PEW back door fund these organizations like the CCA?
“THE PEW CHARITABLE TRUSTS”
“Program Investments”
“Before submitting a letter of inquiry about partnering with us, you should first review the Program Priorities area that most directly matches your proposed project. Please be aware that our investments are highly focused, making support very unlikely for activities that do not closely match our program goals.”
Notice on the PEW website that in order to be funded by PEW like the CCA is funded, PEW’s support is very unlikely unless the CCA’s activities closely match Pew’s program goals. And we know what PEW anti-fishing goals are. And CCA taking money from PEW now PEW goals are CCA goals. And since CCA knows if this gets out it it not a good reflection on the CCA so the CCA uses the misleading bogus press and news releases to cover their tracks.
Keep in mind: CCA Emeritus Ed Sapp and CCA Emeritus George Geiger both recommended by the CCA for the voting rec seats on the GMFMC and the SAFMC that they currently hold have voted against the recreational fisherman without one scintilla of sound science.This fact in no way reflects Ed Sapp’s or George Geiger’s intentions to represent the fair interests of the recreational fishermen, but it does represent Ed Sapp’s and George Geiger’s intentions to be good little CCA minions and vote the way the CCA wants them to vote to the detriment of fairness for the recreational fishermen of Florida. And anyone who fronts, spins and/or apologizes for this guise and pretext is disingenuous and dishonest.
95% of the people that are a member of the organization don’t realize all the politics around it. I think they would spend their money differently if they did.
Set the trap boys, we going to pass through them again!!
Let’s set up a lunch or meeting on a Friday.as scouting lives elsewhere and we can discuss. I will try to get the guy from CCA SC to come which I am sure I can do.
Two groups working for the same goal is much better than Internet discussion or debate.
Let’s set up a lunch or meeting on a Friday.as scouting lives elsewhere and we can discuss. I will try to get the guy from CCA SC to come which I am sure I can do.
Two groups working for the same goal is much better than Internet discussion or debate.
What do you guys think about this idea?
big dog
I live in the upstate. Sorry or I would come. Would really like to meet you in person Wando.
This could be a good meeting. Lots of Cf.comers share the same frustrations.
Set the trap boys, we going to pass through them again!!
