Biden Order Closes Huge Areas To Fishing
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With the recent Executive Order (EO), recreational fishing gear, bottom trawls, and pelagic longline are viewed the same as all other fishing gear when it comes to designating Marine Protected Areas (MPA). The EO, signed by Biden, calls for closing 30% of U.S. ocean waters to fishing, including recreational fishing, by 2030 through the MPAs.
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This is not the first time such a strategy has been raised, very large marine protected areas in various regulatory (marine monuments, wildlife refuges, sanctuaries, marine reserves, etc) forms have preceded the current initiative. Through the US Ocean Action Policy in 2006, the Bush administration created what at the time was the largest MPA, the Northwest Hawaiian Islands National Monument, 84 million acres, followed by the Obama Administration enlarging it to approximately one-half million square miles. Bush created a larger protected area via Proclamation 8335 in January 2009 when he established the Marianas Trench National Marine Monument, 95,216 square miles. The remote location of these Pacific Ocean protected waters lessened impacts on recreational fishing. But closing 30% of US waters to all fishing will negatively impact thousands upon thousands of recreational fishing trips, the associated economic expenditures, and, thus, related businesses and jobs.
Unfortunately, the current EO lumps all gear types together when prohibiting fishing regardless of habitat destructiveness or excessive resource extraction capacity of each gear type. In other words, recreational fishing, bottom trawls, and pelagic longline gear will be treated equally.
No evaluation will be given to negative impacts to public users and supporting economies of this order, which is a major mistake. The recreational fishing community is a long-standing and stalwart steward of marine resources and should not be penalized with a blanket strategy. Most recreational fishing organizations oppose this EO, as well as the commercial fishing industry.
Source: The Billfish Foundation
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STOP BIDEN AND KAMALA !!!
yeah, we’ve had 3 major disasters within the last year. We’ve had the Covid 19, the recent freeze and the Biden administration. All people and job killers. The Biden administration and liberals are real terrorist and threat to the American people and our way of life. This administration is a radical,true tree hugging group who do not show any regard for the American people who are hard working folks…trying to support their families.
The national news media (including the Fox news liberal, Chris Wallace) have created a severe, grave injustice to the American people with their extremely biased reporting on Trump and Biden and his liberal handlers (along with their extreme radical agenda spearhead by Pelosi and Schumer)
Alarm sounded. What do we need to do to get the recreational portion overturned? The commercial group will have their own lobby.
Sad day!! We have to stop this travesty!
just think what biden will destroy in the next 3 years and 9 months half the time he dosent even know where he is. this radical crap is coming from extremist democrats who want to destroy all our liberties and freedom biden is a dictator!!! welcome to communism in the making . he is not my potus and i will not do anything he says.
All their power will dissipate at the mid term
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