March 21, 2010 New York Post: Rec fishing groups fight for access There is a storm brewing in the recreational fishing community over a new federal plan for oceans and great lakes that would limit sport fishing in large areas of open waters …
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March 16, 2010 Working Waterfront: From the Town Landing: Drawing the line on spatial planning Managing the nation’s ocean waters has got to be one of the most vexing and complicated resource-management tasks governments attempt-and it’s about to get a lot more complicated …
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March 15, 2010 Bigjournalism.com: Obama To Ban Fishing? Not Yet, But… Give the Regulators Time Is the Obama administration trying to ban sport fishing? Not at this time. Is the Obama administration setting up structures and processes that could, and probably will, eventually result in more regulatory restrictions on sport fishing? You betcha …
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March 15, 2010 Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: Hook, line & sinker: Bad policy A redo of federal policy on use of marine, Great Lakes and inland waters bears close watching by recreational anglers, the industry that serves them and Congress …
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March 14, 2010 Advocate: The Wild Side for March 14: President’s actions hard to understand This is the most difficult outdoors piece I’ve ever written. That’s because I could never have imagined our president could fail us more miserably than he is now …
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March 11, 2010 New York Times: Obama Administration Jumps to Squelch Rumors of U.S. Fishing Ban The Obama administration is trying to dash rumors that it planned to ban recreational fishing in marine waters and the Great Lakes in the wake of a series of Internet posts warning that such a prohibition was imminent …
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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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