President's order upholds fishing in federal waters

This is why we have to elect McCain - Obama is the poster child of the HSUS http://stripersandanglers.com/Forum/...ons/icon13.gif Great move on the part of Bush. :clapping:


President's order upholds fishing in federal waters

by Al Ristori/The Star-Ledger Wednesday October 01, 2008, 7:05 PM


The push by some environmental organizations to establish Marine Protected Areas that might prohibit catch-and-release recreational fishing suffered a setback when President Bush signed executive order 13962 on Sept. 26, ordering federal agencies to maintain recreational fishing as a sustainable activity on federal lands and waters, including marine protected waters.
Earlier this year, Bush also signed an executive order protecting striped bass and red drum in federal waters from commercial exploitation, and urging states to do the same in their waters. The American Sportfishing Association applauded the president for taking his latest action to preserve recreational fishing opportunities. ASA president Mike Nussman said: "As a recreational angler and boater himself, the president clearly understands that sportsmen and women are conservationists first and foremost and that recreational fishing is an essential component of the nation's heritage."
Though those executive orders add to Bush's marine conservation legacy, a future president could overturn them with a stroke of a pen. Therefore, it's important the candidates for that office be pinned down on their attitude toward such vital issues. The Sportsmen and Animal Owners Voting Alliance endorsed the John McCain-Sarah Palin ticket this week, describing McCain as "an avid fisherman." While Sen. Barack Obama's attitude toward fishing and marine conservation is unknown at this time, the alliance noted his endorsement by the anti-hunting Humane Society as a negative.

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Originally Posted by bababooey

This is why we have to elect McCain - Obama is the poster child of the HSUS http://stripersandanglers.com/Forum/...ons/icon13.gif Great move on the part of Bush. :clapping:


While Sen. Barack Obama's attitude toward fishing and marine conservation is unknown at this time, the alliance noted his endorsement by the anti-hunting Humane Society as a negative.

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Sometimes all we have to go by is what someone it not saying. MCCain and Palin are friends to outdoors people.

At least someone is looking out for us sportsmen.:clapping:

I can find no reference to an Executive Order 13962. I have found this with the same date that he referenced:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/relea...080926-24.html

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Originally Posted by njdiver

I can find no reference to an Executive Order 13962. I have found this with the same date that he referenced:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/relea...080926-24.html

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NJdiver, I copied that article for pasting here. Do you think it could have been a typo on Ristori's part? (my eyes hurt from reading that, subsection a,b,c,d,e....:scared: )I don't know how people involved in legislation and goverment manage to read this stuff all day.


Executive Order: Amendments to Executive Order 12962



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By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and in order to conserve, restore, and enhance aquatic systems to provide for increased recreational fishing opportunities nationwide, it is hereby ordered as follows:
Section 1. Executive Order 12962 of June 7, 1995, is hereby amended: (a) in the preamble, by striking "and the Magnuson Fishery Conservation and Management Act (16 U.S.C 1801-1882)" and inserting before ", and other pertinent statutes," the following:
"the National Marine Sanctuaries Act of 1972 (16 U.S.C. 1431 et seq.), the National Wildlife Refuge System Administration Act of 1966 (16 U.S.C. 668dd-ee), the National Park Service Organic Act (16 U.S.C. 1 et seq.), the National Historic Preservation Act (16 U.S.C. 470 et seq.), Wilderness Act (16 U.S.C. 1131 et seq.), the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act (16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.), the Coastal Zone Management Act (16 U.S.C. 1451 et seq.), the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (43 U.S.C. 1331 et seq.)"; and
(b) by redesignating subsections (d) through (i) in section 1 as subsections (e) through (j), respectively, and inserting after subsection (c) the following new subsection:
"(d) ensuring that recreational fishing shall be managed as a sustainable activity in national wildlife refuges, national parks, national monuments, national marine sanctuaries, marine protected areas, or any other relevant conservation or management areas or activities under any Federal authority, consistent with applicable law;".
Sec. 2. This order is not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity, by any party against the United States, its agencies, instrumentalities, or entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any other person.
GEORGE W. BUSH
THE WHITE HOUSE, September 26, 2008.

That's it.