ultangler
02-25-2010, 08:32 AM
If we don't wake up here, people. The United We Fish rally in DC was a real eye-opener, because things are getting so dangerously bad that commercials and recs are actually working together! It's amazing, but true. At the rally it was 100-percent unity - that's how threatened the commercial guys feel. Why? Because the sea bass shut-down here, the snapper shut-down down south, and the no-fishing zones out west are harbingers of what is coming. The Magnuson-Stevens act in its current form has given those who want to shut down fishing, both commercial AND recreational, the tools to do it. Yet most of the people at the rally were commercial guys from NY, NC, MA, and NJ - where the heck were the MD, VA, and DE fishermen??? We need the Flexibility in Rebuilding America’s Fisheries Act, HR 1584/SB1255, to pass, or we're in for more of the same as sea bass. Take a look at www.unitedwefish.com, and hopefully you'll take a moment or two to click on the "contact your representative" button, and add your voice to support the freedom to fish.