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BATON ROUGE, La. – The Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership and its marine sportfishing partners will hold an innovative series of workshops across Gulf of Mexico states this spring to identify opportunities to restore and enhance recreational fishing through recovery efforts associated with the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. The Gulf Recreational Fishing Restoration Workshops are a [...]
National Park Service and Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission Take Steps to Resolve Access to Biscayne National Park Recreational boating and fishing community guardedly optimistic but firm on need for General Management Plan changes Today, a coalition of national boating and fishing organizations, concerned with the long term health of and public access to Florida’s [...]
The World’s Largest Sportfishing Trade Show Just Got Bigger ASA and AFFTA partner to co-locate ICAST and IFTD in Las Vegas in 2013 Alexandria, VA and Westminster, CO – September 14, 2012 -Today, the American Sportfishing Association (ASA) and the American Fly Fishing Trade Association (AFFTA) announced a partnership in which they would co-locate their [...]
Alexandria, VA – March 2012 – The FishAmerica Foundation, the conservation and research foundation of the American Sportfishing Association, has funds available for marine and anadromous sportfish habitat restoration projects throughout coastal America, the Great Lakes region, and all U.S. Territories through its partnership with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Restoration Center. These [...]
“On behalf of the thousands of recreational-fishing dependent businesses in the Gulf of Mexico region, the American Sportfishing Association (ASA) thanks Representative Scalise and the more than twenty co-sponsors of the RESTORE the Gulf Coast Act,” said ASA President and CEO Mike Nussman.
“Recreation is the single largest economic output of national forests and grasslands, with 46.5 million anglers spending over $1.2 billion annually to enjoy recreational fishing on USFS lands,” commented Robertson. “It is astounding that with such high demand, access is still a barrier for millions of anglers.
These catch limits are intended to be set based on quality, up-to-date data on fish stocks, such as catch, biological characteristics and abundance measures. However, this important information is lacking for the majority of stocks in the South Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico, and as a result managers are using alternative, inadequate metrics on which to base annual catch limits.
Each year, ICAST attracts thousands of members of the sportfishing industry to see the latest innovations in gear and accessories and network with key industry leaders, all under one roof.”
“We applaud the vision and leadership of Mr. Wittman and the other FSIA co-sponsors,” said Congressional Sportsman’s Foundation President Jeff Crane. “The sportfishing community is facing an unacceptable situation in which arbitrary deadlines are being allowed to trump the essential need for science-based management of our marine resources. We are grateful to Mr. Wittman and his colleagues for identifying the problem we have in federal saltwater fisheries and taking action on this issue.”
