You don't Kick this Dog, We Bite Back; The Online Fisherman

“Defend our right to fish. Defend our Carbon Footprints!!!!!!”Gary Poyssick

Honored to be a small component in the battle to keep the Environmental Defense Fund, NOAA and the left from controlling our fisheries. Americans have the right to fish. Make America Aware of the travesty of progressive regulation of our fishery. Defend our right to fish. Defend our Carbon Footprints!!!!!!

Gary Anderson

NOAA, the EDF, the Gulf of Mexico Fisheries Management Council and the Keep America Fishing advocates are pushing for more recreational permit programs, thus allowing those that can afford to fish to do so and those that can't, well they can just cut bait. The Keep America Fishing logo is just that, a branding or a tool for all the government ABC's to control your fishing rights and all those that joined up under the Keep America Fishing website thought it was aimed to preserve their right; where as they were really just sold a bill of goods. The Duping of America! “Fishermen who signed up for Keep America Fishing email campaigns as are now united under one voice with a group which openly supported the restrictive language written into Magnuson in 2006 and is now advocating for

building broader private angler support for catch shares in 2010,” Jim Donofrio, RFA (Recreational Fishing Alliance) Executive Director.

NOAA and the EDF have set goals to have the catch shares put in place for the recreational angler. To make this work they have make a sector separation making 3 groups- commercial, recreational private boat and recreational for-hire (charter) boats. A bill that was introduced first in the house back in July 2009 raised its ugly head again in July 2010. The Consolidated Land, Energy, Aquatic Restoration Act (CLEAR Act) HR3534 looks very good when you first start reading it. It talks of stopping offshore oil drilling and a $2.00 a barrel fee for every barrel of oil produced in the USA to go to conservation. This bill is about 2200 pages long and the more you read the worst it turns. It turns our federal waters over to the United Nations to control. That means the 3-mile state line on the Atlantic coast and the 9-mile state line on the gulf coast is all the water we will control as an America. I hope you agree that we are better off fighting the battle with NOAA and the EDF over catch shares and sector separation than trying to start a new battle wit the United Nations. Just think if the United Nations took over our oceans we could have the foreign fishing boats fishing off our beaches and think what it would do for homeland security. Please take the time to write every senator you can to get this bill stopped...“Captain Buddy Bradham “