tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-403803322007821204.post3613024973832983594..comments2023-06-13T02:41:37.209-05:00Comments on A Traditional Life Lived: Another right bites the dust....Michellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00799580437940059865noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-403803322007821204.post-54052938827606186922009-10-13T09:05:22.536-05:002009-10-13T09:05:22.536-05:00The work of the Oceans Policy Task Force isn't...The work of the Oceans Policy Task Force isn't come out of the blue - The 90 day process for the interim report builds on the three year, highly vetted and publicly reviewed work of the US Commission on Ocean's Policy that was conducted during the Bush Administration and chaired by a Bush appointee. With the 2004 recommendations in place for 5 years, and with the extensive regional meetings conducted by the leaders of the ocean policy task force, there have been lots efforts at public outreach and many opportunities to influence policy. <br /><br />Drawing extreme scenarios (i.e. can't take the kids fishing) is a great way to scare people but not a way to be taken seriously by policy makers. You should go back to the Report of the US Commission on Ocean Policy to start to catch up on the issues and problems the ocean policy task force is addressing. <br /><br />To say that sport fishing rights will be affected by joining the LOS Convention is foolish and uninformed. President Reagan adopted a 200 nautical mile exclusive economic zone under which the federal government, in conjunction with regional fishery management groups, manages the use of coastal fisheries. Joining the LOS Convention won't affect this one iota. That authority has been in federal hands since Reagan's 1983 proclamation and won't be affected by joining the Convention.CaitlynAhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13058746435233244686noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-403803322007821204.post-22158298338858075042009-10-12T19:38:24.989-05:002009-10-12T19:38:24.989-05:00Perhaps we will just continue to fish anyway. Scre...Perhaps we will just continue to fish anyway. Screw 'em. We'll fish in gangs, roaming the nations waterways with an eye towards breaking the law, tossing a line where we damned well please. Mothers, hide your children, the Bubbas are coming to town and we mean business. I guess next they'll try to tell us we can't hunt. Of course, hunting does involve firearms.Catawissa Gazetteerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04939761313614220536noreply@blogger.com