Posted on 10/12/2009 2:45:38 PM PDT by BornToBeAmerican
October 5, 2009 - Alexandria, Va. – 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.
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I hope this makes my union-member son wake up. He lives to fish, and this is the one thing that could make him actually take notice of what’s going on in the US right now.
Fish are in schools- they’re all unionized.
We want to ban midnight basketball at the White House!!
I think he hates Michigan.
The US has a treaty with Canada over issues concerning the Great Lakes, it would require approval of all states bordering a lake and Canada before any law could be changed.
Now Obama Wants to Ban Sport Fishing
Use a picture of his wife as a lure and that will be the end of ALL fishing.
Fits in with the UN Agenda 21 AND the Wildlands project..here is a 2004 FR posting of a 2001 article defining the Wildlands project. Maps for each of the states Wildlands projections have been unavailable on the internet for a few years now:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1121952/posts
Where in the constitution does he find the authority to do anything has has already done?
Dem’s do you hear me? You have exceeded your authority.
Think of the millions of jobs lost after he does this.
Patience.
Allow the usurper to hang himself, but-good.
In the meantime just add fishermen/women to our 2010 "big tent". ;^)
I couldn’t find anything in the report about banning fishing. It does mention overfishing, but sportsfishermen should know that’s a legitimate concern. Not that I trust Obama people to do a good job, but if someone can find where in the report it proposes banning sport fishing, please post it.
I’m pretty sure the fed has the right to manage public lands and waters.
He’s still too cowardly to go after the rednecks with guns, so he is going after the rednecks with fishing poles.
Why should we interfere with Bummer when he is so busy destroying himself?
Gonna devalue vacation homes on the Great Lakes.
No fishing?
Why go?
For the view?
Yeah right?
Wait that is almost a Haiku!
“It does mention overfishing, but sportsfishermen should know that’s a legitimate concern.”
It’s none of the federal government’s business who fishes and where. Show me anything in the Constitution that mentions fishing . . . or for that matter, abortion, penumbras, privacy, 3 gallons per flush, automobile seatbelts, healthcare, and on and on ad naseum. IT’S NOT THERE!
I don’t care if it mentions overfishing or not . . . it’s not in the Constitution!!!!!!!! Is this thing on??????
The ocean is not public property, nor is my stock pond.
In Texas there is an unwritten understanding.
Leave us alone to live out lives in peace and we will get along fine, if that is not satisfactory we will deal with it.
That is almost like I feel about Washington DC. Leave us alone. OR ?
Some links to the Wildlands Project, in the US, now called the Wildlands Network:
Malaysia Wildlands Project *****
Malaysia Wildlands Project aims to protect and restore the naturalheritage through establishment of a connected system of wildlands.
www.malaysia-wildlands-project.com - Highlight - 1 more top result from this site
Cascadia Wildlands Project *****
Information and news on campaigns to defend the forests, wildlife, and waters of the Cascadia bioregion ... Cascadia Wildlands educates, agitates, and inspires ...
www.cascwild.org - Highlight
Home Page - Wildlands Network - formerly Wildlands Project ****
Official website for Wildlands Network: Reconnecting Nature in North America. We represent a network of people protecting networks of land.
www.twp.org - Highlight - 3 more top results from this site
Home Page - Wildlands Network - formerly Wildlands Project ****
Official website for Wildlands Network: Reconnecting Nature in NorthAmerica. to the official website for Wildlands Network, formerly theWildlands Project.
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Wildlands Project ****
Davis says about the Wildlands Project publication, “Wild Earth exists in part ... TO LEARN HOW THE WILDLANDS PROJECT WILL BE IMPLEMENTED GO >HERE ...
www.mtmultipleuse.org/wilderness/wildlands_project.htm - Highlight - 2 more top results from this site
Wildlands Project - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ***
The Wildlands Project Project was created to preserve the North American Rocky Mountain Glacier Parks. By now, it is possible that the only possible remaining glaciers in the Rocky Mountains are no longer in the United States.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wildlands_Project - Highlight - 1 more top result from this site
Wildlands Project Revealed ***
Currently no public web site at this web address. ... Welcome to www.wildlandsprojectrevealed.org! This domain is powered by EarthLink Web Hosting.
www.wildlandsprojectrevealed.org - Highlight
Wildlands Map of US **
The Wildlands Project would set up to one-half of America into core wilderness reserves and interconnecting corridors (red), all surrounded by interconnecting buffer zones (yellow).
www.discerningtoday.org/wildlands_map_of_us.htm - Highlight
EcoFuture: Dave Foreman, a Dialogue with Derrick Jensen **
... Wilderness Society, a co-founder of Earth First!, a co-founder of The Wildlands Project, executive editor of Wild Earth magazine, and author ...
www.ecofuture.org/pk/pkar9510.html - Highlight
The Wildlands Project **
Click Here for larger Wildlands Project Map of CA/NV ... Read article on how the Wildlands project is crippling small rural communites ...
www.stewardsofthesequoia.org/Wildlands_Project.html - Highlight
Divide and conquer.
“He’s still too cowardly to go after the rednecks with guns...” No he is too ignorant to understand that most of us rednecks with fishin poles also carry.
Cause he was raised in Kenya.
I’ve had the same thoughts, he’s a fool though if he thinks he can get away with this
Obama makes his own laws. We really have no need for the Senate or House any more.
I have to agree...the more he does, the more he offends...
livius
What type of fishing does your kid go for?
Inshore or offshore?
And where about does he go?
Now as for St. Augustine, How long ya been there?
Ye miss the old bridge?
NO good fisherman likes being told anything specially directions or that he can’t fish here.
Wife and I spent two days at a ded & breakfast about three blocks off the fort. Neat place and we had a great time.
Been there about 4 times and had a great time every visit.\
Sailed the fort area on a Hobie cat too.
Bookmarked
Wouldn’t this be considered Religious Prosecution?
Very wise Landru.
There will be a giant backlash to this clowns over reaching.
And the pendulum will swing just as hard to the right.
That’s okay, the evil on will give us painkillers to ease our hunger.
I don’t believe fishing laws are included. I live 15mins from Ontario and the laws(and fees) are very different from each other. The law you mention I think concerns diverting water for agriculture and discharge levels for pollution. If BHO outlawed fishing, Canada would hit the jackpot for tourists.
Knowing this guy, he’ll problably raise the fees to the level only the elite could afford.
Socrates: I drank what?
When they came for the sport fishermen I did nothing,
Because I wasn't a sport fisherman...
It is illegal to poach fish from the King’s lands.
When Don Willy Schaefer went from Mayor of Baltimore (formerly the post of Pelosi’s dad and then her brother)to governor of Maryland, a friend who works Annapolis warned me that he was going to regulate the entire state like Baltimore City. Sure enough he did. Finally the legislature rebelled and put a stop to it when he proposed a $50 a year license for “chicken-necking” for crabs, a favorite pastime of small boys and old folks. Watch out America, here comes Ci-cago.
It is on federal land. You’re right that it’s not in the constitution. But that’s a fight long ago lost—Jefferson bought Louisiana without constitutional authority. We have an entire national park system that isn’t mentioned in the constitution, and federal lands.
Well, gun owners. Car guys *&* gals. Working people who've yet to be shown a single shovel for all the shovel ready jobs and on & on, eh?
Best of all the dork, apparently, doesn't see that piano hovering over his head, following 'em around. LOL
The imbecile has set into motion so much crap which'll generate for him & his handlers so many unintended consequences it promises the very finest in comedic entertainment, anywhere. LOL
"There will be a giant backlash to this clowns over reaching. And the pendulum will swing just as hard to the right."
Bingo Joe, the herculean avalanche is inevitable.
A national puking-out the likes of anything the republic's witnessed in several lifetimes.
The clock's ticking, fellas.
~2010. ;^)
I might take up this discussion later when I have time. It’s an interesting one.
Many years ago I casually dated a fellow working in DC. He was at the near-top of the food chain of the department that has oversight for national parks, government lands and the like.
He invited me to a weekend away. He explained that the government had many maintained off the books retreats and locations used by government peoples mostly Senators and upper level aids. He gave me my choice of several different locations. I didnt like him and didnt take him up on his offer.
Some animals are more equal than others.
The Constitution provides, in Article 4, Section 3, Clause 2: The Congress shall have Power to dispose of and make all needful Rules and Regulations respecting the Territory or other Property belonging to the United States; and nothing in this Constitution shall be so construed as to Prejudice any Claims of the United States, or of any particular State.
So that leads to the question of who controls the coastal waters, etc. It pretty much ends the debate about areas owned by the fed gov.
Ya know Landru,
When ever there is an over reach by either the left or the right there is an equal backlash.
This guy is pushing for every agenda the libs have ever dreamed of.
I wonder what right winger will raise and how nuts may he be?
“Doerr further said, “As with any good federal policy decision, discussions about measures that may restrict public access to public resources must involve an open public process,...”
Is this where I came in or where I get off? I thought I was in line for the men’s room...
Which part of the Constitution , pray tell, permits this guy to co-opt fishing in Federal waters? When will someone put a nose ring on this clown and snub it down?
Clearly, good conservation principles must prevail when it comes to commercial fishing in the Great Lakes. I’m just not sure I trust this administration to anything “good.”
Agreed. That said, I actually skimmed the whole report—a tough read—and didn’t see anything about banning fishing. Did see a bunch of climate change crap, though.
A little more:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2360512/posts
Obama White House to 60,000,000 Anglers: We Don’t Need You
Gateway Pundit ^ | 10/12/2009 | Jim Hoff
I couldn’t find anything in the report about banning fishing.
It did say, ..."develop zoning which may permanently close vast areas of fishing waters nationwide. "
These people leave no stone unturned!
“Big tent” you say?
And just which “big tent” might that be, pray tell?
You’re certainly not referring to the “republican” tent, are you?
Because for years now they have been welcoming with open arms those who espouse sodomy and prenatal infanticide.... just like the “other progressive party”.
Conservative, Constitutionalist Evangelical Christians however, seem to be “persona non gratia” and are quickly shown the back door of said “big tent”.
Try to run for anything as a pro-Life Conservative up here in Maine with Sen. Oly Snowes’ personal private party and you’ll find out pretty frickin’ quick just how “big” this “tent” is...
...And where the back door is located.
That tells me something.....
I doubt that the Obama team will merely manage our fisheries responsibly. I'm sure they will show themselves to be enviro-whackos. But that doesn't mean wildlife management is a bad thing.
There is the question of jurisdiction, but like most Constitutional questions, it's merely an intellectual exercise. Fedzilla can pretty much do as it pleases.
Anyway, I didn't see any ban of sportfishing in the report. And in theory, there are cases where sportfishing DOES need to be limited. I wish sport fisherman were all responsible stewards, but we know they aren't. That's why there are size limits etc.
I'm a sport fisherman in a densely populated state, so I have some understanding and sympathy for regulation. If we didn't have regulations here in NJ, the damn russians would have caught and eaten every fish in NJ by now.
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