Is Recreational Fishing Obama’s Next Targeted Villain?
This one is so off-the-wall stupid we’re struggling to believe it’s even possible. But apparently it’s legitimate – the Obama administration could be on the verge of imposing a ban of some sort on recreational fishing.
That’s correct. Fishing.
This morning, ESPN Outdoors ran a piece outlining a situation in which the administration appears to be moving toward a “federal strategy that could prohibit U.S. citizens from fishing the nation’s oceans, coastal areas, Great Lakes, and even inland waters.” Apparently, there is such a thing as an Interagency Ocean Policy Task Force, run out of the White House, and since June of last year they’ve been working on a scheme to regulate the abovementioned waterways so as to control virtually everything that happens within them.
That, says ESPN Outdoors reporter Robert Montgomery, includes whether Americans will be allowed to fish. According to the article…
“When the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) completed their successful campaign to convince the Ontario government to end one of the best scientifically managed big game hunts in North America (spring bear), the results of their agenda had severe economic impacts on small family businesses and the tourism economy of communities across northern and central Ontario,” said Phil Morlock, director of environmental affairs for Shimano.
“Now we see NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) and the administration planning the future of recreational fishing access in America based on a similar agenda of these same groups and other Big Green anti-use organizations, through an Executive Order by the President. The current U.S. direction with fishing is a direct parallel to what happened in Canada with hunting: The negative economic impacts on hard working American families and small businesses are being ignored.
“In spite of what we hear daily in the press about the President’s concern for jobs and the economy and contrary to what he stated in the June order creating this process, we have seen no evidence from NOAA or the task force that recreational fishing and related jobs are receiving any priority.”
According to the article, there have been a bevy of white papers and policy documents pouring forth from environmentalist nuts since Obama’s election and many of them describe “overfishing” while making no apparent distinction between commercial and recreational fishing. Angling groups and recreational boating groups have been screaming about the cozy atmosphere between the Obama administration and the green gang for months, and no one has paid them any attention. As a result, it is now expected that by the end of this month some sort of final report from the task force will spill out, with an Executive Order from the president implementing the recommendations in the report on “marine spatial planning” that will, as Montgomery puts it, amount to zoning laws that might outlaw recreational fishing in certain areas.
What is “marine spatial planning?” If you think that is a sinister-sounding piece of jargonistic bovine scatology, we agree. Looking at this Interagency Ocean Policy Task Force’s work product to find answers, things get even more unsettling. They’ve released an “interim framework” document in December, the outline of which is below:
A New Approach to How We Use and Protect the Ocean, Coast, and Great Lakes. The Interim Framework is designed to: decrease user conflicts; improve planning and regulatory efficiencies and decrease their associated costs and delays; and preserve critical ecosystem function and services. The Interim Framework describes how such plans would be developed and implemented, and provides timeframes and steps for phased implementation of the framework. Moves us Away From Sector-by-Sector and Statute-by-Statute Decision-Making. While many existing permitting processes include aspects of coordinated planning, most focus solely on a limited range of management tools and outcomes (e.g., oil and gas leases, fishery management plans, and marine protected areas). Comprehensive marine spatial planning presents a more integrated, comprehensive, ecosystem-based, flexible, and proactive approach to planning and managing uses and activities. Brings Federal, State, and Tribal Partners Together in an Unprecedented Manner to Jointly Plan for the Future. The Interim Framework is not a top-down planning effort. Rather, it describes a new approach to Federal resource planning that is regionally based and developed cooperatively among Federal, State, tribal, and local authorities, and regional governance structures, through the establishment of nine regional planning bodies. Places Science-Based Information at the Heart of Decision-Making. Scientific data, information and knowledge, as well as relevant traditional knowledge, will be the underpinning of the regionally developed plans. Emphasizes Stakeholder and Public Participation. The planning process would be fully transparent and participatory – requiring frequent and robust stakeholder engagement throughout all steps of the process (i.e., development, adoption, implementation, adaptation and evaluation).
There’s a PDF file of this document available which goes into more detail, as on the first page it defines “Coastal and Marine Spatial Planning” as…
CMSP is a comprehensive, adaptive, integrated, ecosystem-based, and transparent spatial planning process, based on sound science, for analyzing current and anticipated uses of ocean, coastal, and Great Lakes areas. CMSP identifies areas most suitable for various types or classes of activities in order to reduce conflicts among uses, reduce environmental impacts, facilitate compatible uses, and preserve critical ecosystem services to meet economic, environmental, security, and social objectives. In practical terms, CMSP provides a public policy process for society to better determine how the ocean, coasts, and Great Lakes are sustainably used and protected now and for future generations.
It goes south from that paragraph of gobbledygook, and it basically goes on and on about the insufficiency of laws governing the different uses of bodies of water and the requirement for a “holistic” approach. Nine different federal bureaucratic agencies to create this “holistic” approach are proposed.
The Task Force in question has as one of its most important members National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration head Jane Lubchenco, who as Montgomery reports comes from a background as a honcho with the Environmental Defense Fund and the Pew Oceans Commission – two organizations eaten up with global warming advocacy and “holistic” environmentalism. Lubchenco recently made an imbecile of herself when asked about the Climategate disclosures and the unraveling of the anthropogenic global warming movement’s “science,” which she still ardently defends, and that should naturally make anyone suspicious of government bureaucrats armed with “incontrovertible” science from which regulatory paradise might spring.
In short, research into this issue yields more darkness than light, and this task force’s work product encompasses much more than just recreational fishing – its “holistic” approach to oceans, lakes and the like involves transportation, energy, commerce, aquaculture and all sorts of other perhaps more important sectors than recreational angling. The fact that fishing wasn’t even discussed as a separate case despite the loud opposition within that community should tell you how far gone the green gang and their allies in the administration are.
Following this idiocy to its logical progression gives one a truly frightening scenario. If the federal government is in a position to tell sport fishermen there are areas they can’t fish – or can’t fish without a highly-prized and thus politicized federal license – how far does this go?
Earlier today we referenced the Battle of Stalingrad as an analogy for the health-care struggle going on in Washington. That analogy reminded us of an interesting movie on the subject – Enemy At The Gates, with Jude Law, Joseph Fiennes, Bob Hoskins and Rachel Weisz – about the desperate Soviet effort to beat the Germans back in that pivotal battle.
Well, in that movie there’s a scene - or, more accurately, there isn’t a scene, since it was deleted from the film, in which Law, playing the role of expert sniper Vassily Zaitsev, tells Fiennes, whose character is a political commissar, how he learned marksmanship from his grandfather. It seems Zaitsev’s grandfather was carted off to the gulag for the crime of poaching wolves…
Sure, you want to keep endangered species from being hunted out of existence. But when that’s not at issue it amounts to the kind of tyranny described in the scene for the government to attempt to control private citizens hunting and fishing. It’s an affront to the American way. And if the concerns expressed in Montgomery’s articles are valid (and research to date offers little reason to doubt them) when this task force’s final report tumbles out later this month, it ought to be a political and social scandal which buries Obama and his administration under a mountain of public outrage – starting with calls for the Soviet-sounding NOAA head’s name off her office door.
UPDATE: Just in case you think this thing is crazy, just take a look at NOAA’s current performance on commercial fishing in Massachusetts. They’re perfectly willing to put commercial fishermen out of business out of a fealty to junk science; how hard is it to believe that they’d interfere with sportfishing?
(Hat tip: Fishermen’s Blues, which has done a comprehensive job of documenting the carnage the Obama administration has done to the commercial fishing business on the East Coast to date)
Filed under: Barack Obama, Economics, Environment, Science, The Constitution, The Left
PUT YOUR ROD IN THE AIR AND STEP AWAY FROM THE STREAM!!!
Ok… this fabricated nonsense definately tops my list of LOL funny spins to smear Obama.
It's ALL over the right-wing sites… pages and pages of "sources" on google OBAMA WANTS TO BAN FISHING!
How is it that some sexist bigot with a nasty temper can write something on ESPN and without even as much as googling it to fact check, sprews a bunch of baseless crap and it ends up on Fox nation? I bet it will be on Becks show tomorrow to make up for the total Massa Disasta he had today.
(make sure you check out Robert Montgomery aka Bobby Knight now, ya hear?)
So, the story took me 10 minutes to research. Here is the truth of the matter.
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Back on June 12, 2009 Obama sent out a memorandum: see 1st link
Thus the Interagency Ocean Policy Task Force was created.
They turned in their initial report: see 2nd link
and then with another report (not sure if this is the final one or not): Please note page 10 #2 see 3rd link
On December 14th, This was released: see 4th link
Notice the first paragraph where it talks about getting the publics input? Well, the 60 day period was up.
That's it…. nothing more to see here! Do people REALLY believe he'd ban fishing?
At first, I thought this was started by someone with a Bait & Tackle shop that was failing, needed something to boost sales. Hey! It worked for the gun shops!
For those of you who SPREAD this nonsense…. Considering the story? Kiss my Bass!
-RicoShay
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Guess you should read more than the white house .gov Propaganda website..
Its not left or right issue …The additional loss of the economics involved of recreational fishing estimated to be 1 million jobs..millions of dollars in tax revenues and billions to the economy…
I can't even imagine what else is in the lineup we don't even know about…
so its time sheeple like you face the facts…
This is alarming, right now we are facing just to name a few of the most key areas…
(1) New Health Care Regulations, more taxes…
(2) Carbon Tax Emissions, more taxes…
(3) Immigration Reform…New Real ID …ect
(4) West Land Grab (loss of 10 million acres for energy exploration…
(5) Most important, deliberate attempt to implement policies that will continue
America's economic downfall… encompassing all of the above….
You can kiss my trout…take the Blinders off Dumbass
No, he won't ban fishing. At least not before dissolving Congress and declaring himself emperor. We have checks and balances in this country.
But it's clear that he would like to, and that he is taking steps in that direction. In his DNC acceptance speech, after all, he did pledge to "heal the planet." Liberty erodes slowly, though, so he'll do what he can and leave the rest to future liberals.
Sure, Rico. I'm going to give credibility to whitehouse.gov postings over others. This isn't about recreational fishing, it's about an administration's desire to control every aspect of our lives, and to dictate how we manage the planet, because this administration considers itself superior to all who came before, and all whom it governs
Ryan (above) is correct that it won't happen, but this administration will continue to slowly chip away at whatever freedoms it can.
Remember, this is the administration that wants to provide court appointed attorneys to wildlife!
Just like Obama was going to take all the guns and ammunition. And we as Republicans wonder why we are losing credibility – stop publishing this nonsense.
"We?"
Based on your rapid-fire trolling of this site this morning and flacking for the Obama administration, I'm going to say your claim to be a Republican is a flat-out lie. This looks more like an Organizing For America plant than an honest opinion, and it's not something we'll put up with for long.
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Probably a Linsay Graham supporter!
My reply part 1: As of May 1st with the new PEW designed scam named "catch shares" the government IS going to put the majority of commercial fishermen out of business. It won't be long before they turn their attention to recreation fishermen. PEW has had a long term plan they have been working on for decades to take over NOAA and advance a radical left wing enviro agenda. The plan has been to infiltrate the NOAA from the inside out. When Obama put PEW moonbat in charge of NOAA (Lubchenko) that was the icing on the cake of the plan. You can continue to read the lies the mainstream media is telling you about "catch share" but it's typical liberal doublespeak it means the exact opposite of what the name indicates. Lubchenko admits it's going to put a whole bunch of fishermen out of business. If we can't stop this before May 1st, there will probably be riots in places like Gloucester and New Bedford up here in Mass.
My reply Part 2: Commercial Fishermen are passionate about their jobs, it's their lives. They aren't going to just say "oh well, I guess I'll be a plumber or carpenter now". Big Government that the liberals love is taking the only thing away from them that they love to do. And don't feed me this crap that they've been wiping out fisheries, it couldn't be further from the truth. Thats what the scientists want you to believe, just like the IPCC clowns and global warming. The NMFS scientists were caught dragging their nets sideways and claiming there is no fish out there, and they were pulling that crap for years. The science is bogus, there are so many fish in the waters off Mass you can practically walk on water. The truth is the regulations over the years have worked. But the enviros never want to give quota back even when they promise too. They only want more and more restrctions until we are stuck importing all of our fish.
Hey 69th, I understand this issue played a totally unreported part in helping to get Scott Brown elected up there – is that true at all?
Per your last sentence, that is precisely the same thing we see with respect to oil and natural gas down here in Louisiana. Federal policy couldn't have a more pronounced effect on domestic energy production if it was designed to import it all.
Checks and balances? You are referring to the three wings of the same government, right?
Not that I'm aware of. I was a member of the Brown Brigade and went to several rallies, volunteered on the phone banks etc. But I was the only one even mentioning the issue. I posted blogs trying to get other Brown Brigade members to get involved and help our fishermen but didn't get any replies. But it was good to see that Brown got involved in the United We Fish rally in DC a couple of weeks ago. He showed interest that he may want to help us. People call Snowe, Collins, Brown RINO's, I think they are some of the few pols that care about our fishermen. I'm a computer geek but my brother is a commercial fishermen. Over the past 15 years the Magnuson restrictions have gotten so harsh, he can't afford to pay a person to help him so he goes fishing in the Atlantic on his own, just barely scraping by week to week. If the catch shares do go into effect on May 1st, he will be out of business by the end of the summer. According to his calculations the catch shares mean he will have to try to survive on 30% of what he has been catching and just scraping by.
Screw obanana and his tyranny, I'm going fishin, I dont care what the bluegum says.
So we need to give up our Liberty to heal the Planet??
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