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Texas, Louisiana,
Mississippi, Alabama, Florida,
Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina,
Virginia, Maryland, New York, Connecticut,
Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Maine,
Oregon, Washington
United in
Conservation
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December 10, 2009
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration releases its
Draft Catch Share Policy
Public comment period will end on April 10, 2010
CCA News - Catch Shares
CCA hails
breakthrough on catch share management
The language that was
included in the bill was supported by CCA, the American Sportfishing
Association and the Center for Coastal Conservation and requires the
agency to report “how data collection for recreational catches will
improve in fisheries where the commercial sector receives catch
shares; and how allocation conflicts between recreational and
commercial sectors will be resolved.” The report is to be provided
to the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations.
Thank you, Governors,
from the members of CCA
Recently, CCA asked the Gulf state governors to voice their concerns
over a rapidly expanding federal program for managing fisheries
called a catch-share program, and Gov. Perry of Texas, Gov. Jindal
of Louisiana, Gov. Barbour of Mississippi and Gov. Riley of Alabama
responded by signing a
letter to
U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gary Locke.
The letter signed by the governors was a powerful
gesture on behalf of recreational anglers, and recreational anglers
have responded with an outpouring of appreciation for the leadership
shown by the Gulf governors.
CCA Press Release -
October 22, 2009
Gulf Governors Stand Up for Recreational
Angling
“We have already seen the
negative impacts from the Gulf red snapper catch share system and
are concerned about negative impacts from the pending program for
Gulf grouper,” the governors’ letter stated. “Creating an exclusive
harvesting right for a small group of commercial fishermen
inherently marginalizes other users who do not have the same access
privileges. In purely commercial fisheries this effect can have both
economic and management benefits. But when applied in mixed-use
fisheries, recreational anglers are forced to focus their efforts in
limited state waters or not participate in the fishery at all.
Neither of these outcomes is desirable."
Letter from
the Gulf Governors to Secretary Locke.
CCA Press release - October 13,
2009
Conservationists Encouraged by Fisheries Amendments
The pace and breadth of federal
oceans and fisheries policies have caused apprehension in the
angling community in recent months, but a pair of amendments to a
Commerce-Justice-Science spending bill filed by Sen. David Vitter
(R-La) last week signals that some elected officials are concerned
as well. The amendments, proposed as part of spending bill HR 2847,
would force the National Ocean and Atmospheric Administration to do
new analyses of offshore fish farming and catch-share programs in
federal fisheries.
CCA Press release - September
28, 2009
CCA Files
Lawsuit to Stop Gulf Grouper Giveaway
"In more than 30 years of
practice in fisheries law, I have not seen a more arbitrary action
than this one,” said Robert G. Hayes, CCA general counsel. CCA has
asked for an expedited hearing and expects the government to answer
the lawsuit within the next 60 days. “We are going to proceed as
quickly as the court will allow to prevent the implementation of
this egregious decision.”
CCA
Response to Houston Chronicle Editorial
- September 15, 2009
Catch share programs that privatize public resources for the benefit of a
handful of commercial fishermen are not examples of good stewardship, and they
are hardly a model that should be employed in any other fishery. Maximizing
public access to public marine resources and managing them in a way that both
conserves the resource and delivers the greatest economic benefits to the nation
is the proper way to steward our marine resources.
CCA Press Release - August 31,
2009
NOAA
Abandons Recreational Anglers
Approval of grouper giveaway pushes
recreational anglers to the brink
CCA Discussion Document Ends in
Success
- August 12, 2009
Controversial paper accomplished goal by shining light on red snapper
management failures.
CCA Press Release - August 7,
2009:
NOAA
catch-share program threatens recreational angling
CCA questions federal program of resource giveaways.
CCA Letter to Monica Medina, Head of the NOAA
Catch Shares Task Force
- August 6, 2009
"Simply
put, CCA is opposed to the application of catch shares in purely
recreational fisheries, agrees that there may some value in their
use in purely commercial fisheries and has a number of grave
concerns about their application in mixed-use fisheries."
CCA Comments on Amendment 29 to the Gulf of
Mexico Reef Fish Plan - submitted June 8, 2009
Adoption of any amendment must be supported by the record. Even
initial decisions, like who can participate in the plan, have to be
supported by an analysis of the existing data and the impacts of the
decision. It is simply not adequate to conclude at the outset that
only the commercial sector can have an ITQ. The agency’s total focus
on the commercial sector of this fishery dooms this amendment from
being legally sufficient.
Briefing
Packet on Catch Shares
In fisheries where there is a large and
growing recreational sector, exclusive fishing rights proposals
maximize benefits to the commercial fishing industry while ignoring
the participation and beneficial economic impacts of recreational
fishing.
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Catch Shares News
Congressional panel wades into 'catch share' debate
Gloucester Daily Times
March 11, 2010
NOAA Proposal Aims to Spur Cap-And-Trade Management
of Fisheries
New York Times
Dec. 10, 2009
Task force urges faster move to reform fishing
AP
Dec. 10, 2009
NOAA Administrator Discusses Recreational Fishing's
Concerns
World Fishing Network
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