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Recreational Fishing Alliance
Contact: Jim Hutchinson, Jr. / 888-564-6732
For Immediate Release
September 14, 2012
ROMNEY TALKS FISHING IN BIG GAME FISHING JOURNAL
RFA Praises One Fishing Magazine Tough Enough To Tackle “Big Fish”
In the September/October edition of Big Game Fishing Journal on newsstands this week, don’t miss an exclusive ‘question and answer’ session on recreational fishing with Governor Mitt Romney, the man the Recreational Fishing Alliance (RFA) hopes will be the next President of the United States.
“The Journal’s publisher Len Belcaro asks the real questions on the minds of saltwater anglers today, and Governor Romney’s answers are exactly what our community has wanted to hear,” said RFA executive director Jim Donofrio. “Just looking at a few of the advance quotes I can tell that Governor Romney truly gets it!”
On what sportfishing means to him as former governor of a coastal state (Massachusetts):
“The economic impacts of recreational fishing activities are significant, and they have too often been overlooked in recent years.”
How ‘President’ Romney would help preserve and protect our coastal traditions:
“Recreational angling can be an incredible economic engine for our coastal states, but it is being shackled by misguided, over-reaching regulations that make little economic or conservation sense.”
What a Romney administration would do to address national ocean policy:
“Public participation should begin early in the process and be ongoing. Sustainable recreational use should not only be supported within a national ocean policy, it should be actively promoted.”
Tackling angler criticism of NOAA Fisheries:
"A more responsive, transparent, science- and economics-based system is needed to properly manage our marine fisheries. When those pieces are in place, we will enter a new era of trust and cooperation that will be good for the fish - and the