California’s Anglers Help Defeat Proposed Regulations that Threatened Lake and Pond Fishing
KeepAmericaFishing 12.19.11
Your Voice Was Heard!
Over a thousand anglers sent messages to the California Fish and Game Commission (FGC) through KeepAmericaFishing™ and helped defeat onerous regulations that would have reduced freshwater fishing opportunity.
Thanks to an overwhelming response from anglers like you, regulations that would have forced all lake, pond and hatchery owners to perform costly environmental surveys on every lake or pond that stocks fish were defeated during the December 15, FGC meeting.
KeepAmericaFishing is dedicated to keeping these waters open and affordable for anglers, but these regulations could not have been defeated without the strong efforts of anglers like you.
Congratulations and thank you!
Background
During its December 15, meeting, the California Fish and Game Commission considered and rejected onerous environmental regulations, which could have cost well over $100,000 per body of water. If approved, these regulations would have created a substantial burden on private landowners who stocked and managed ponds and lakes on their property.
Businesses that offered fishing on private lakes would have either been put out of business or would have been forced to significantly increase the cost for anglers like you.
KeepAmericaFishing will continue to monitor this issue and work to ensure that threats to freshwater recreational fishing in California are minimized. For more information on this and other issues affecting your right to fish, visit www.KeepAmericaFishing.org.
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.
