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2010

  • Gulf anglers finally catch a break - Aug. 24, 2010
    A fall red snapper season is in the works thanks to a vote of the Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council at its meeting last week in Florida. The extension is designed to give recreational anglers who might have missed out on the 53-day season due to closures associated with the Deepwater Horizon oil spill a chance to fish.
     

  • Governor Jindal Says Go Fish! - Aug. 6, 2010
    Saltwater recreational fishing reopened in the vast majority of Louisiana’s state waters three weeks ago, and it’s time for anglers to return to the water with their families and friends, according to Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal. The governor joined several representatives of the recreational fishing community on a fishing trip Wednesday, July 28 in the Gulf of Mexico south of Houma, Louisiana, catching a variety of popular sport fish.
     

  • Sportfishing and Boating Communities Continue to Call for Public Access in New National Ocean Policy - July 21, 2010
    Over the past year, the recreational fishing and boating community provided substantial input to the Task Force, the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and advocated that the social, economic, public health and conservation benefits of sustainable use of our nation’s public resources receive priority consideration in the new coastal and ocean management policy.
     

  • Sportfishing Community Applauds Legislation to Improve Federal Marine Fisheries Management System - July 15, 2010
    Today, Sen. Bill Nelson (D-Fla.) introduced legislation designed to safeguard the strong conservation standards of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act (MSA) while addressing a growing crisis within the federal marine fisheries management system.
     

  • Mapping a Road to Recovery - June 24, 2010
    CCA meeting with Senate Democrats emphasizes need for habitat restoration.
     

  • Council appointments a step forward for anglers - June 24, 2010
    The 2010 regional fishery management council appointments released yesterday by the U.S. Department of Commerce gave an indication that federal officials are paying attention to the concerns of recreational anglers.
     

  • CCA outlines plans for oil spill recovery in meeting with Sen. Richard Shelby
    June 21, 2010
    In a meeting with U.S. Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL), Coastal Conservation Association Alabama called on BP and the federal government to support plans for habitat restoration and construction of a saltwater fish hatchery/research center to reverse damages to Gulf marine resources as quickly as possible.
     

  • Gulf Council clears way for extension of red snapper season - June 17, 2010
    In response to a request from Coastal Conservation Association, the Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council has approved an emergency rule that paves the way for the recreational red snapper season to remain open past July 24 if the quota is not taken due to the oil spill.
     

  • ASMFC Finally Cuts Bait - May 11, 2010
    At its meeting last week in Washington DC, the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission (ASMFC) directed its Menhaden Technical Committee to develop new options for managing menhaden more like a critical forage species than a fish to be industrially harvested. A move that many East Coast anglers would say is long past due.
     

  • ASMFC Continues Effort to Increase Commercial Bass Harvest -
    May 7, 2010
    Anglers will soon have the opportunity to comment on a new effort to increase the coastal commercial harvest of striped bass by 20 to 50 percent, after the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission's (ASMFC) Striped Bass Management Board voted this week to send the proposal out for public hearing.
     

  • Conservationists prepare for oil spill response - April 30, 2010
    In response to the tragic rig explosion and subsequent oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, Coastal Conservation Association chapters along the Gulf Coast have offered assistance to state agencies as they enact plans for clean-up efforts.
     

  • Reallocation Is the Answer - April 26, 2010
    NOAA Fisheries announced a perplexing paradox today that speaks to the flaws in the federal fisheries management system. In the release, NOAA Fisheries declared both an increase in the overall total allowable catch of Gulf red snapper in 2010 and the shortest recreational red snapper season on record, at the same time.
     

  • Anglers Cautiously Optimistic After Recreational Fishing Summit - April 21, 2010
    Outdoorsmen were out in force at the nation’s capital last week as two events in Washington DC were dedicated to how this country manages its wild and natural resources.
     

  • EDF raises stakes in catch share lawsuit - April 9, 2010
    Seeking to defend a controversial catch share program for Gulf grouper, the Environmental Defense Fund has been allowed to intervene in a lawsuit filed by Coastal Conservation Association in federal district court that challenges the adoption and implementation of Amendment 29 to the Gulf of Mexico Reef Fish Management Plan.
     

  • CCA Comments to NOAA Fisheries Service Opposing Haugen Exempted Fishing Permit - March 8, 2010
    Coastal Conservation Association believes the enforcement issue alone should be a permanent deterrent to the reintroduction of any fish trap gear in the Gulf of Mexico and urges NOAA Fisheries Service to reject this application for an exempted fishing permit.
     

  • Coalition seeks to avoid fisheries management “train wreck” - Feb. 24, 2010
    Passage of the 2006 Magnuson-Stevens Act, the overarching law that manages America’s marine fisheries, revealed crippling deficiencies within the agency charged with implementing the law.
     

  • CCA Continues Advocacy for Harvest Reform, Recovery of Oregon’s Salmon Runs - Feb. 11, 2010
    “The changes made by the Attorney General’s office do not reflect the intent of the initiative, which is to end the non-selective over-harvest of Oregon's native fish runs while maintaining a healthy commercial salmon fishing industry.
     

  • ASMFC Takes Wrong Turn on Striped Bass - Feb. 10, 2010
    After hearing a litany of significant concerns about the health of the striped bass population presented by its own Technical Committee and by law enforcement personnel, the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission’s (ASMFC) Striped Bass Management Board did the last thing anyone expected.
     

  • Council action on Gulf red snapper signals need for reallocation - Feb. 10, 2010
    The reward for decades of sacrifice announced at the Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council meeting this week is a good news/bad news scenario for recreational anglers.
     

  • Fish trap proposal rejected by Gulf Council - Feb. 4, 2010
    Like a bad penny, a proposal to re-introduce fish traps as an alternative to longline gear in the Gulf grouper fishery turned up before the Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council in December, outraging conservationists and fisheries management veterans who had fought to banish the destructive gear from the Gulf back in the 1990s.
     

  • CCA Mourns Passing of Walter Fondren - Feb 1, 2010
    The conservation community lost one of its true visionaries with the passing of Coastal Conservation Association founder Walter W. Fondren III last week in Houston.

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