FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Rebecca Louviere, Communications Director 225-382-3756 Washington, D.C. – August 1, 2017 – The recreational fishing and boating community today applauded the introduction of the RED SNAPPER Act,…
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Recreational angling stakeholders gathered on Capitol Hill today for a Congressional Saltwater Recreational Fisheries Policy Luncheon along with coordinated congressional office visits. Event sponsors included American Sportfishing Association, Center for…
Click HERE to read the full letter to The Honorable John Barrasso, Chairman, U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works and Senators Cardin, Boozman, Klobuchar, Capito, and Baldwin regarding S. 1514,…
Recreational Fishermen Laud Wicker, Nelson and Colleagues Today, the recreational fishing and boating community praised the Senate introduction of the Modern Fish Act by Senators Roger Wicker (R-Miss.), Bill Nelson…
Catch shares in marine fisheries is a concept unfamiliar to most people, and it is probably completely alien to most hunters and anglers in this country. It is a system…
Today, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross announced the 2017 Regional Fishery Management Council (RFMC) appointments and has shown that recreational fishing and boating are important to the Trump Administration. The appointments…
Click HERE to read the full letter to Chairman Cochran and Ranking Member Leahy.
BY INVENTIVEFISHING.COM The proposed fisheries management plan “Modernizing Recreational Fisheries Management 2017,” stands to be one of the most important pieces of federal legislation to affect recreational anglers in recent…
The ANNOUNCEMENT TODAY of action to extend the Gulf of Mexico recreational red snapper season is a welcome boon to anglers who have been painted into a corner by a federal fisheries…
The recreational fishing and boating community praised the introduction of a bill that addresses critical challenges facing saltwater recreational fishing at the federal level. Led by Congressmen Garret Graves (R-La.),…
