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 | #

[Girlene]

Recreational fishing generates a $125 billion annual economy in the United States and supports jobs in every state according to government figures.

Brilliant. Thanks for the info, bhfred. I'll be sure to pass this along to a few interested parties.

FYI ping, 4wb.

[bigheadfred]

Brilliant

Exactly what I said. But the way the wife reacted, you would swear I did too.

[4woodenboats]

Thanks, I read some of it yesterday. I'm pretty sure the citizens of United States are not going to give up control of our navigable waters to a foreign country.

I don't have anything to cite off the top of my head, but I believe the Coast Guard and Homeland Security have to defend those waters, and can even enlist captains with CG endorsed Masters licenses to help.

All an attempt to surrender our waterways would accomplish would be an expedited impeachment, followed by charges of treason, sabotage, etc.

And while they're sorting things out, we can get our target practice in while waiting for the bite.

[Chickensoup]

“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?

Historically slavery and servanthood were refuges for many people who did not have resources.

[lonevoice]

I haven’t heard this anywhere else, and it sounds like yet another important thing to keep track of.

[tjhannink]

FWIW a little more current history.

“On May 15, 2007, United States President George W. Bush announced that he had urged the Senate to approve the UNCLOS.”

So this isn’t just an “Obama” issue.

“On October 31, 2007, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted 17-4 to send the treaty to the full U.S. Senate for a vote.”

And it doesn’t seem to be a Dem/Rep issue either since the vote wasn’t strictly along party lines.

“In the United States there has been vigorous debate over the ratification of the treaty, with criticism coming mainly from political conservatives who consider involvement in some international organizations and treaties as detrimental to U.S. national interests.”

I understand this and why they would feel this way; I don’t disagree on some of their issues.

“A group of Republican senators, led by Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma, has blocked American ratification of the Convention, claiming that it would impinge on U.S. sovereignty. The Bush administration, a majority of the United States Senate, and the Pentagon favored ratification.”

So, we let an Oklahoma Senator determine our national coastal policies? And what exactly is driving this Senators interest in this treaty? The good of his constituents? Or is he doing the bidding of his corporate sponsors?

[backhoe]

I appreciate the further information- thanks!

[combat_boots]

“folks selling generations of land”

Who’s buying it? ‘Groups’? ‘Foundations’?

Soros & friends?

[RipSawyer]

“kind of reminds me of Clinton, except Zer0 is more malicious.”
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Are you kidding? I used to wake up cussing Bill Clinton and go to bed the same way but Hopey makes the Clinton years look like the good old days. Clinton was a disaster but he was a disaster like having your house burn down with no injuries. Obama is like having the church burn down with your family and friends inside. Amazingly there are still idiots who think we upgraded when we replaced a president who loved America but was imperfect with a perfect ass who HATES America. The best years of my life are gone but it looks as though the children of today will, if they can survive somehow, live in a turd world communist or fascist hellhole that few could imagine until recently. Most of the freedoms that we took for granted sixty years ago are gone and the situation worsens day by day. We need to split this country and give the idiots their own country to ruin as they see fit, maybe the rest of us who haven’t gone insane could still have a reason to live.

[DLfromthedesert]

For later

[RipSawyer]

3 1/2 more years of this- can we endure?
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No we cannot, Obama and his band of idiots will turn this country into Zimbabwe or worse by then. It is easy to deal with someone who is stupid if they realize their own limitations and act accordingly but what we have now is a gang of morons in Washington who all think they are geniuses, nothing on Earth is more infuriating except possibly trying to deal with the morons who elected the morons.

[RipSawyer]

“They are hoping for an uptake in about six months.”
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Two chances, slim and none and Slim ran off to join the Taliban in Afghanistan.

[The Comedian]

America: Off Limits to Americans.

Mexicans: Welcome, do whatever you want, wherever you want.

Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

[RipSawyer]

How on Earth can people who love to fish and or hunt be blind enough to support a Marxist? It is mind blowing.

[Karliner]

You can tell I’m angry combat_boots when I just don’t stop to re write a first draft....good question though WHO is buying land that can’t have well water? I assume( uh oh I’m assuming0 the dems will keep voting for the delta smelt until the farmers are FORCED to sell at a horrid loss then one of these “developer” companies will pick it up, let the well water flow and huge condominiums for the poor will grow from the dry now worthless dirt and THE ONE will make good on a promise as the farmers, and all the generations of farmers just sob...or get angry and fight because this IS the batle of our livesd...only it’s money.land and mind games so far....once the common folks wake up for what this rape is there will be ....eh, it’ll get crazy JMHO

[shibumi]

"You can't undo a UN treaty,"


Sure you can. You just need the right legal representation.

I recommend the law firm of Mossberg, Remington, Springfield amd Colt.

(If you require international representation, I hear the firm of Kalashnikov and Makarov is quite reliable.)

Make sure your case is filed in the court of Judge Taurus.

[backhoe]

You just need the right legal representation. I recommend the law firm of Mossberg, Remington, Springfield amd Colt. (If you require international representation, I hear the firm of Kalashnikov and Makarov is quite reliable.) Make sure your case is filed in the court of Judge Taurus.

You have that right- I don't want it to come to that, but it may be necessary.

[backhoe]

BTTT^