Help Bring Fishing Back to Cape Hatteras National Seashore
KeepAmericaFishing 05.07.12
Send a message supporting legislation that will bring common sense – and restore recreational access – to the Park Service’s management of Cape Hatteras National Seashore.
The National Park Service’s unfair fishing access closures at Cape Hatteras National Seashore Recreational Area, one of the East Coast’s premier surf fishing destinations, are receiving increasing attention in Congress. We need your help to persuade Congress to act now to restore reasonable public access to this national treasure.
On Friday, the U.S. House of Representatives held a hearing exploring the disturbing trend within the Park Service of limiting recreational access at national parks, including Cape Hatteras.
Last week also saw the introduction of important legislation (S. 2372) in the Senate that will allow anglers and other visitors to the Cape Hatteras seashore reasonable access to the park’s beaches while still providing adequate protection for shorebirds and other native wildlife. S. 2372, sponsored by Senators Richard Burr (R-N.C.) and Kay Hagan (D-N.C.) mirrors legislation that was introduced in the House of Representatives in February (H.R. 4094) by Representative Walter Jones (R-N.C.).
KeepAmericaFishing™ needs your help to ensure that this important legislation swiftly passes through Congress to restore access to Cape Hatteras National Seashore Recreational Area.
KeepAmericaFishing is the fastest growing community of anglers united with one common goal -- to protect our right to sustainably fish on our nation's waterways. As the voice of the American angler, KeepAmericaFishing works to keep our public resources – our oceans, lakes, rivers and streams – open, clean and abundant with fish.
Across the country, preventing or limiting recreational anglers’ access to public waters fisheries is being touted as a new way to manage fish populations. This unprecedented shift undermines the achievements of proven fisheries management methods that focus on conservation and promote sustainable fishing. As a result, the past 10 years have seen a dramatic increase in bans on recreational fishing from the Atlantic to the Pacific, from Texas to Minnesota.
In an effort to combat access restrictions around the country, the American Sportfishing Association launched KeepAmericaFishing to unite the nation’s 60 million anglers under one voice. Through policy, science and conservation, KeepAmericaFishing works to minimize access restrictions, promote clean waters and restore fish populations. With its conservation partners, KeepAmericaFishing works to limit and provide for review and revision science-based closures to areas in which they are clearly beneficial to the health of the fishery.
At KeepAmericaFishing, we are working to give voice to the millions of American recreational anglers who share one thing in common - a passion for fishing.
