Save the Humans: United We Fish rally on DC 2010

AP/Luis M. Alvarez. One sign at the rally of recreational and commercial fishermen summed up the feelings.

Fishermen protest law that closes many areas to fishing
By SANANDA SAHOO
McClatchy Newspapers

Fishermen, anglers, charter and party boat captains and marine business owners from coast to coast gathered here to demand changes in fisheries law that they say is putting them out of work.

This year and next, endangered coastal fishing grounds in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans are to be closed to allow depleted fish species to recover from overfishing. The closures could be as long as 10 years.

"A lot of coastal communities across the United States have had severe negative economic impacts from the excessive regulations," says Pam Anderson, the operations manager at the Capt. Anderson Marina in Panama City Beach in Florida. "Folks can't carry on."...

Read More: Fishermen protest law that closes many areas to fishing - KansasCity.com

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United We Fish. Fishing interests rally to to protest oppressive management of saltwater fisheries

By Robert Montgomery
ESPNOutdoors.com


During the rally, fear of that collapse "showed on the faces of grown men in tears, who are afraid that they won't be able to do a job that they love and support their families," Chaconas said. "And what I realized from attending this rally is that this is not just a saltwater fishing issue.

"If these guys can't fish, even people in Middle America are affected. They won't be able to buy and eat American-caught fish. They'll have to get it from someplace else. That's yet another threat to our economy."

But tears were outweighed by enthusiasm and applause on this rare day of moderate weather in the nation's capital. And it ended on a decidedly upbeat note, according to Hutchinson.

"Scott Brown, the new senator from Massachusetts, showed up and it was like having a rock star," he said. "He's going to sign onto the bill.

"And when the rally was over, he told his constituency to follow him back to his office."

Fishing interests rally to to protest oppressive management of saltwater fisheries

Is Obama climate change policy in violation of the First Amendment?

The American Thinker makes a great point. And I'd like to be the 1st to connect the global warming scam (aka anthropological global warming), with what the NMFS and NOAA have been doing to the commercial fishing industry.

"There can be little doubt that man-made global warming activists exhibit all of the characteristics of those promoting a religion."

"with the notion of such "settled science" thoroughly discredited, President Obama and the high priests and priestesses of his Environmental Protection Agency continue the federal government's effort to establish climate change control based only on faith impervious to logic or reason."

Who is fact checking the scientists at NMFS? Each other? What a joke that is. How much taxpayer money are we flushing down a toilet on this bogus science?

Is Obama climate change policy in violation of the First Amendment?

My view: The three-pronged assault on the family fishing fleet - GloucesterTimes.com, Gloucester, MA

My view: The three-pronged assault on the family fishing fleet - GloucesterTimes.com, Gloucester, MA

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Bypass plan: Special interest group could have big hand in closing fishing

Bypass plan: Special interest group could have big hand in closing fishing

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Pew's Conquest Of The Ocean

Pew's Conquest Of The Ocean

By David Lincoln

This is the story of how a handful of scientists set out from Oregon with an unshakable belief that they knew what was best for the rest of us. They ended up conquering the world (or at least the watery portions of it) and got rich along the way, while the fishermen and their families only worked harder and got poorer. When their scientific dogma connected with nearly unlimited resources, the earth quaked and the resulting tidal wave swept aside all the usual checks and balances. It carried along the media, the politicians, the government agencies and the non-governmental organizations with such force that seemingly no one could stand against the tide.

the full story is here:

Pew's Conquest Of The Ocean

Fishermen's Finest Inc. v. Locke

You know you are in for a world of hurt when your future rests in the hands of a career hack backroom deal loving poltician...

In this case, Fishermen’s Finest, Inc., North Pacific Fishing, Inc., and U.S. Fishing, LLC, (Fishermen’s) appeal from the district court’s order granting summary judgment in favor of the Secretary of the United States Department of Commerce. Fishermen’s challenges the Secretary’s issuance of a final rule adopting Amendment 85 (A85) to the Fishery Management Plan (FMP) for Groundfish of the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands Management Area (BSAIMA).

In its conclusion, the majority ruled, t]he Secretary is allowed, under [controlling precedent], to sacrifice the interest of some groups of fishermen for the benefit as the Secretary sees it of the fishery as a whole.'

Read the full ruling here

The silence of regulation

Someday, someone will write the definitive book on the federal government's 30-year insane, stupid, runaway plan to hyperinflate the fleet under the Magnuson-Stevens Act, round up too many fish, then kill off the fleets as fast as they can — all the while blaming the fishermen in both directions....

The silence of regulation

Panel mulls NOAA hearing - GloucesterTimes.com, Gloucester, MA

Panel mulls NOAA hearing - GloucesterTimes.com, Gloucester, MA

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The chairman of a congressional subcommittee has announced plans for an oversight hearing on federal fisheries law enforcement, which has been acknowledged by the head of the agency as needing multiple reforms.

Frank scolds NOAA chief on fishing issues | SouthCoastToday.com

Frank scolds NOAA chief on fishing issues | SouthCoastToday.com

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Meet NOAA/ NMFS the "out-of-control bureaucracy"

For too long now the Enviros and political hacks have been putting more and more restrictions on commercial fishing, costing more and more hard working fishermen and women their jobs and careers. On Feb 24th 2010 these fishermen need your help to send a strong message to the Politicians. This grass roots effort has much in common with the TEA (taxed enough already) Party protests that swept across America in 2009. They need and deserve our help in fighting the corrupt federal beaurocracies who have manipulated science and data over and over again over the years and used this bogus data to further restrict the fishermen and make it harder and harder every year to earn an honest living.

I'm hoping to be able to highlight some of the scandals that are happening now, and the controversies and scandals of the past years and decades.

The fishermen are taking a stand on Feb 24th and I'm going to do all that I can to help spread the word and educate people on this very worthy effort to right the wrongs.

Capt. Black Bart

Now read on ye scurvy dogs!

From Nils Stolpe a long-time consultant for and chronicler of the commercial fishing industry:

First off, as we all know far too well, an ever intensifying anti-fishing malaise has afflicted NOAA/NMFS for at least a decade. What’s its source? To a very large extent, it’s come from a very successful and very expensive campaign bankrolled by very large foundations to convince as many people as possible with an interest in the world’s oceans that fishing is one of the greatest scourges to ever afflict them. Through the skillful – did I mention expensive? – manipulation of science and scientists, and through the selective – did I mention expensive? – manipulation of the print and broadcast media, a large proportion of those people, and the officials who represent them, have bought into this fantasy.

Unfortunately, when the people and their legislators in Washington go in a particular direction, whether that direction is right or wrong, most federal agencies aren’t too far behind. Thus, it’s fairly easy to suggest that the NOAA/NMFS Office of Law Enforcement’s “treat ‘em like criminals” attitude towards fishermen and fishing businesses is an understandable outgrowth of the institutional attitude of the parent agency.

Read the full story about how the recently released first installment of the US Department of Commerce Inspector General’s report on the scandalously inadequate, unbalanced and inequitable job that NOAA/NMFS has been doing in enforcing fishing regulations, particularly in the Northeast here:

From the agency that brought us Trawlergate

United We Fish. United we Vote. Fishermen Rally in DC 02/24/2010

FISHERMEN'S RALLY in WASHINGTON, D.C. 02/24/10

How Can you help? Contact your Senators, Contect your Congressperson, and tell them that you want them to stop NOAA & NMFS from putting our fishermen out of business with over-reaching restrictions and the scam called "catch shares".

http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm

https://writerep.house.gov/writerep/welcome.shtml

Tell em all that Captain Black Bart will not be happy if they don't help the fishermen!

"How'd you like to scrape the barnacles off of me rudder?"