Obama White House to 60,000,000 Anglers: We Don't Need You

Gateway Pundit ^ | 10/12/2009 | Jim Hoff

[backhoe]

Obama White House to 60,000,000 Anglers: We Don't Need You

Obama White House takes on 60,000,000 American anglers. (Hawaii Leisure)

A recently released White House document could result in the closures of sport fishing in salt and freshwater areas.
Shimano reported:

Feds to 60 Million American Anglers: We don't need you

A recently published administration document outlines a structure that could result in closures of sport fishing in salt and freshwater areas across America. The White House created an Interagency Oceans Policy Task Force in June and gave them only 90 days to develop a comprehensive federal policy for all U.S. coastal, ocean and Great Lakes waters. Under the guise of ‘protecting’ these areas, the current second phase of the Task Force direction is to develop zoning which may permanently close vast areas of fishing waters nationwide. This is to be completed by December 9, 2009.

Dave Pfeiffer, President of Shimano American Corporation explained, “In spite of extensive submissions from the recreational fishing community to the Task Force in person and in writing, they failed to include any mention of the over one million jobs or the 6o million anglers which may be affected by the new policies coast to coast. Input from the environmental groups who want to put us off the water was adopted into the report verbatim – the key points we submitted as an industry were ignored.”

Recreational fishing generates a $125 billion annual economy in the United States and supports jobs in every state according to government figures. Through the Sport Fish Restoration program, anglers have provided more than $5 billion through excise taxes on fishing tackle to fishery conservation and education for decades.

In addition to the economic aspects, anglers lead the nation in volunteer conservation efforts on behalf of improving fish habitat, water quality and related environmental areas. “There was no mention of the fishery conservation efforts which anglers have led for over 50 years in every state – an environmental success story that has no equal in the world”, said Phil Morlock, Director, Environmental Affairs for Shimano. “The Task Force did not make any distinction between the dramatic differences between harmful commercial fishing harvest methods and recreational fishing, even though we spelled it out for them in detail,” added Morlock.

Claiming to be the result of a public consultation process the report states, “Having considered a broad range of public comments, this report reflects the requests and concerns of all interested parties.”

The original White House memo and not surprisingly the Task Force report contains multiple references to developing a national policy where Great Lakes and coastal regions are managed, “consistent with international law, including customary international law as reflected in the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea” - a 300-page treaty the U.S. has never ratified.

“We question what implications there will be for state authority and jurisdiction in the Great Lakes and coastal regions if the U.S. adopts the U.N. Treaty,” said Pfeiffer.

Posted by Gateway Pundit at 10/12/2009 03:44:00 AM Comments (10) |

 

You can't undo a UN treaty, if the administration signs this, this will be worse than cap and trade and healthcare combined. Please everyone read the treaty, it will give the UN control over every single waterway in the United States including all rivers and ponds, even the ones in your own backyards. Thus, ending our sovereignty as we know it.
Scott | 10.12.09 - 6:29 am | #

 

This is also the model for gun control. Call your Senators.
arch | 10.12.09 - 6:44 am | #

 

Here is some more fun stuff...

Obama advocated the communal ownership of land and the forced
confiscation of privately controlled land, as part of a forced
“development plan”, an important element of his attack on the
government’s advocacy of private ownership, land titles, and property
registration. (p. 29)

Obama advocated dramatically
increasing taxation on “the rich” even up to the 100% level, arguing
that, “there is no limit to taxation if the benefits derived from
public services by society measure up to the cost in taxation which
they have to pay” (p. 30) and that, “Theoretically, there is nothing
that can stop the government from taxing 100% of income so long as the
people get benefits from the government commensurate with their income
which is taxed.” (p. 31)

Obama advocates an “active” rather than a “passive” program to achieve
a classless society through the removal of economic disparities between
black Africans and Asian and Europeans. (p. 28 ) “While we welcome the
idea of a prevention [of class problems], we should try to cure what
has slipped in .. we .. need to eliminate power structures that have
been built through excessive accumulation so that not only a few
individuals shall control a vast magnitude of resources as is the case
now .. so long as we maintain free enterprise one cannot deny that some
will accumulate more than others .. “ (pp. 29-30)

Obama advocates government owned and
operated “model farms” as a means of teaching modern farming techniques
to farmers. (p. 33)

You can read more about this here. http://prestopundit.wordpress.co...hers-socialist/
Nahanni | 10.12.09 - 7:30 am | #

[Diana in Wisconsin]

“This administration is entirely against any degree of self suffiency, you get everything from the State and must worship the State.”

Truer words have never been spoken.

When will the flour rationing start? 0bama wouldn’t want us baking our own bread and stuff, would he? I’m thinking those of us that cook from scratch and know how to sew on a button will be the FIRST ones into the boxcars.

*SHIVER*

[brushcop]

Agenda 21

Yep, Roger that.

[sergeantdave]

To enforce this illegal treaty obuma will need to put jackboots on the ground. That’s where the rubber will meet the road.

[ironwill]

III - Ping!

[Karliner]

Okay, I live in way Northern California on the coast. There is no salmon season, you don't want crab season more unemployed, many dairy farmer took a dive( when Humboldt Creamery went belly-up) and bankruptcy transferred to the FARMERS, no water in San Joakim where my cousins have 80 year olod plus fruit treees9 and etc) gone because of a delta smealt, there's NO pulp mills running, no more tree harvesting and out unemployment rate( aside from my tangential San Joakin story five hunderd moles SSE)there is allegedly over 30% unemployment( real reports between 18-24% for Humboldt, Del Norte county) which ushers in what???....opium from the "Tahleebahn" or marijuana from Mr "I'llbebach?"

There are so many good hard workers, fishermen, beef farms, dairy farms all kinds of tree and produce farmers, pulp mill workers, lumbermen....and now I see folks selling generations of land, fishing boats and the crime ratte going up as the courts of the nation want to out loaw legal folks to protect themselves when only criminals have wads of cash and weaponry....this is SICKO!!

[4yearlurker]

I'm sure the states will love losing their revenue from fishing license fees and stamps for “Hope & Change.”

[MarMema]

This is going to destroy the peninsula on the coast, where things are hard already, but WERE getting better.

[MarMema]

Maybe you will want to ping this? The Washington coast is going to go down bigtime under serious restrictions.

[chris_bdba]

Yep here in Ohio too. You can see them lned up along the river banks both sides. More than I’ve ever seen before.

[MarMema]

You know, one comment on the post at the site says something about controlling the food supply. When Iceland went bankrupt I recall a politician telling them to fish.

[MarMema]

I recall a census worker was found hung in Appalachia somewhere recently with the word “FED” on his chest.

[sionnsar]

Maybe you will want to ping this? The Washington coast is going to go down bigtime under serious restrictions.

Thanks to MarMema for the ping.

Say WA? Evergreen State ping

Quick link: WA State Board

FReepmail sionnsar if you want on or off this ping list.
Ping sionnsar if you see a Washington state related thread.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks grellis. 60 million Elvis fans can’t be wrong. ;’)

[bigheadfred]

Helga, my love, it’s time to go a viking.

[SunkenCiv]

Obviously someone needs to tackle this.

[ezo4]

“People that voted this POS into power need their asses kicked every hour on the hour for the rest of their lives !”

thats a good tag line

[Rebelbase]

Your post correlates with Chicken Soups post upthread:

“Reminds me of the 1800s in England where millions of subjects were thrown off their land and the lands were possesed by the local royalty. No one could hunt or fish the lands and the locals subjects starved and became a source of cheap labor.”

Could the cause of such ridiculous economic actions against red state areas be to ruin the those economies and drive the people into blue zone cities for work and to up the Congressional district gerrymandering? Also to get self sufficient people hooked on Gub’mnt freebies?

[MarMema]

The fishing thread....

[Squantos]

Use it as ya please !......:o)

[Terry Mross]

These libs must have enough votes stuffed in the ballot box to win the next ten elections. And Graham, too. ‘Cause they sure seem to be assured of victory while telling millions “If you don’t like it, leave.”