this is it in a nutshell, from a post on Fla Sportsman. Phin and others have been doing a great job and we need to jump on the bandwagon before its to late, this just was very well put togeather and this is the frist I have heard about walmart, but it sure is comming togeather for me! I have joined the RFA today and will call my congressmen on mon.
Do you ever wonder how all these anti-fishing groups are linked together? I’ll make it real easy for everyone.
Here is the list of villains we can thank for CATCH SHARES and a lot of other unneeded, unscientific anti-recreational fishing regs being thrown at us:
SUNOCO Oil, which is owned by the…
PEW FAMILY of Radnor, PA which has donated billions in SUNOCO stock shares to…
PEW ENVIRONMENT GROUP, headed by Joshua Reichert, a militant anti-fishing Vegan, this NGO * gives tens of millions in funds every year to radical Enviro Industry front groups like…
EDF ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND, which is the original anti-fishing Enviro Industry front group to begin pushing for Catch Shares for both commercial and recreational fisheries. EDF’s former Vice-Chairman is…
JANE LUBECHENKO, who as payback by the OBAMA ADMINSTRATION to the Enviro Industry for their donating tens of millions of dollars to his 2008 election campaign, ( http://www.edf.org/pressrelease.cfm?contentID=8994 ) was appointed to head up the US Federal Gummint’s…
NOAA NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHIC & ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION, which oversees…
NMFS NATIONAL MARINE FISHERIES SERVICE, which was formerly known as the…
COMMERCE DEPT’S BCF BUREAU OF COMMERCIAL FISHERIES, until an outcry from recreational fishermen about BCF’s blatant discrimination against them forced a more-palatable name change to…
NATIONAL MARINE FISHERIES SERVICE, which oversees the US coastal regional…
FISHERY MANAGEMENT COUNCILS, which include…
SAFMC SOUTH ATLANTIC FISHERIES MANAGEMENT COUNCIL, which forces unscientific, unneeded and unwanted regs on fishermen in North Car
VERY GOOD INFO! Phin will be impressed! Thanks!