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MIAMI BEACH, Fla. – A fight over fishing led to shots being fired at the Haulover Beach marina. The victims of the shooting weren’t physically injured but they say they are now emotionally scarred. “He was walking on the grass, he ordered two of my friends on the boat and he just started firing off rounds,” said one of the victims, who asked not to be identified. “This is insane, it’s a crazy world we live in.” Evidence of bullet after bullet at the scene tells the story. It all happened Sunday evening. You don’t hear about a story like...

More Hope and Change… Obama’s latest assault on your rights– He wants to ban sport fishing. Barack Obama has a message for America’s 60,000,000 anglers– We don’t need you. The American Sportfishing Association reported back in October about the sweeping changes proposed by the Obama Administration in regards to the sport fishing industry: 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...

The European commission yesterday admitted it is facing its gravest fishing crisis to date and said it would have little choice but to propose a total ban on fishing for cod, haddock and whiting in British coastal waters next year. Arguing it had just received its gloomiest prognosis yet on the state of fish stocks, Brussels said its worst fears had been realised and signalled that what some critics have called "the doomsday scenario" is now all but inevitable. "I don't want to say I told you so," said the EU fisheries commissioner, Franz Fischler. "But it is galling after...