March 11, 2010 Sport Fishing: ESPN Calls Out Obama, Starts a Firestorm On March 9, ESPN Outdoors published a story by Robert Montgomery on its website. The piece was part of ESPN’s ongoing coverage of the Obama Administration’s Ocean Policy Task Force …
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March 11, 2010 ABC Channel 33 WYTV: Fishing Ban Story False The speed and power of the internet was once again displayed as an opinion story posted on ESPNOutdoors.com, but not clearly identified as such, started a firestorm of controversy …
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March 11, 2010 National Review Online: Gone Fishing? Will Obama’s Ocean Policy Task Force Remain in Lockstep with Radical Greens? So Pres. Barack Obama’s “Interagency Ocean Policy Task Force” has decided that the opinions of America’s 60 million anglers aren’t worthy of its consideration …
March 11, 2010 New York Times: House Aides Mull Plans to Overhaul, Codify NOAA Aides from the two House committees with jurisdiction over the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration are working together to draft legislation to overhaul and authorize the agency for the first time, according to House Science Chairman Bart Gordon (D-Tenn.) …
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March 11, 2010 HamptonRoads.com: Anglers are concerned. Are the feds trying to end recreational fishing? That’s what many recreational anglers, charter captains, marina staff and tackle shop owners think. And federal fisheries managers have done little to make any of us think differently …
March 10, 2010 ESPN Outdoors: From the Editor of ESPNOutdoors.com Firestorms get started in a variety of ways, especially on politicized issues. ESPNOutdoors.com inadvertently contributed to a flare-up Tuesday when we posted the latest article in a series of stories on President Barack Obama’s newly created Ocean Policy Task Force, a column written by Robert
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March 10, 2010 ESPN Outdoors: Culled Out: Public Input Period for Federal Fishery Strategy Has Ended The Obama administration has ended public input for a federal strategy that could prohibit U.S. citizens from fishing some of the nation’s oceans, coastal areas, Great Lakes, and even inland waters …
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The National Ocean Policy Coalition submitted the following comments via http://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/eop/ceq/initiatives/oceans/interim-framework/submit and hand delivered on February 12, 2010, to the Interagency Ocean Policy Task Force c/o The Honorable Nancy Sutley, Council on Environmental Quality. Dear Chairwoman Sutley: On behalf of the National Ocean Policy Coalition (NOPC), I am pleased to submit comments on the Interim
Edison Electric Institute (EEI) commented on the Interim Framework for Effective Coastal and Spatial Planning in a letter on February 12, 2010, to the White House Council on Environmental Quality. View the letter here. (PDF)
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The Governor’s Office of the State of Louisiana submitted comments on the Interim Framework for Effective Coastal and Marine Spatial Planning on February 12, 2010, to the Interagency Ocean Policy Task Force. View the letter here. (PDF)