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I simply cannot believe my eyes today. The EPA with the stalwart support of the Obama administration wants to, wait for it, ban all sport fishing in the US. You heard me right – how to thoroughly piss off about 60,000,000 fishermen and women. And here’s a newsflash – many of them are gun owners… Snip My Dad was an avid fisherman. Most of my friends fish and I enjoy fishing. I don’t think they will stand for this – not at all… Do you know how many jobs this will cost us? Fishermen and hunters provide a lot of...

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...

Long-gone salmon species to populate Lake Ontario once more Province set to release about 400,000 Atlantic salmon into three watersheds Globe and Mail April 28, 2006 JAMES RUSK Lake Ontario will receive a massive restocking of Atlantic salmon in an attempt to return a species of fish to the lake that died out more than a century ago, it was announced yesterday. Over the past 20 years, the province has added a number of the fish to the lake as part of a restoration plan, and over the next year about 400,000 Atlantic salmon will be released into three...

Mention Mike Iaconelli's name in any Southern state where bass fishing tournaments are as popular as cornbread and fried okra and you will be greeted with sneers, jeers and remarks not fit for a family newspaper. One thing is certain: He could use the services of Dr. Phil to calm him down. At East Lake Tohopekaliga in Kissimmee, Fla., last month, Iaconelli, 34, of Runnemede, N.J., was disqualified after the first day of competition in the annual Bassmaster Classic, a kind of world championship of bass fishing. Unlike the 2004 Bassmaster Classic, from which he was DQ'd for fishing outside...

""We're restoring fished-down predator species, so the demand for prey is going up," said Ken Hinman, president of the National Coalition for Marine Conservation. "We're looking at a breakdown in the Chesapeake Bay food web. Rockfish, bluefish, sea trout, ospreys and loons all depend on menhaden, which are disappearing when we need them the most." . . . "Since menhaden are the prime forage for rockfish and other species, their abundance is vital to a healthy estuary. Goldsborough called it "perhaps the most important fish on our coast." Yet menhaden is the only species on which ASMFC [Atlantic States Marine...

After a decades-long slide toward extinction, coho salmon are returning in torrents to Oregon's coastal rivers. Estimates of the run -- seldom more than 50,000 fish since the 1970s -- last year pushed above 264,000. This turns out to be very good news at the White House. President Bush's top environmental advisers see in it the potential for removing Oregon's prized coastal coho and many other animals and plants from protection under the Endangered Species Act -- a sweeping law the Bush administration has deemed overly burdensome and in need of reform. Their goal: Show how the federal government can...

LOS ANGELES — For many Americans, "fishing" conjures up images of a quiet lake or gentle stream with man and nature at peace. But not everybody sees it that way. "We're trying to get fishing banned in all state parks," PETA’s Bruce Friedrich said. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals says fishing is a violent and cruel sport that victimizes the innocent inhabitants of the nation's waterways. They've initiated a campaign demanding states ban the time-honored sport. "They have the capacity to feel pain. They have a capacity to suffer," Friedrich said. "For reasons that really defy logic, we...