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JUST IN: EDF Lobbyist plan reveals truth about catch shares and sector
separation-
“It
was originally recommended that sector separation, or separating the
for-hire sector from private anglers, should either occur before
development of the [catch share] program begins or in step 2."
Click here to read more.
EVERY RECREATIONAL ANGLER
HAS A DOG IN THIS FIGHT
Sector separation workshop-
justifying the theft of the recreational fishery.
This will set a precedent for ALL
areas (South Atlantic, Mid Atlantic, Pacific)
FRA CALL TO ACTION
When
Monday November 8, noon to 6
4-6 IS THE TIME WE NEED A
LARGE TURNOUT
Tuesday November 9, 8:30 to 5,
reception 5:30 to 7
Wednesday November 10, 8:30 to noon
Where
Crowne Plaza Hotel
5303 West Kennedy Boulevard
Tampa, FL 33607
(813) 289-1950
What action should I take?
Show up at
the workshop. Preferably Monday afternoon. Also try to make the
‘reception’ on Tuesday night. We need people that can be at the
meetings during Tuesday and Wednesday. Even if you can only come for a
few hours, your presence will be felt and your eyes will be open. Bring
a camera.
Grab an FRA badge (to be available
at the meeting).
Click here for the
full agenda.
JOIN US FOR AN ONLINE SEMINAR ON
SUNDAY NIGHT, 8pm.
Dennis
O’Hern of the FRA will provide explanation and commentary on the
meeting. Documents will be available for download during the seminar.
We will send further information regarding the seminar’s webpage and
password this Friday evening.
Why?
There's a squeeze
play going on. Call it a 'rock and a hard place' or just being in
between two opposing forces, but we're being squeezed. As recreational
anglers, we're facing a threat so profound it could change the sport
forever; and so few people are aware of what's going on that we need all
the help we can get. We need voices and ears to listen.
The issue
is known as Sector Separation. There's a workshop we'll be involved with
this month on the 8th. The Gulf Council is providing the
'workshop' to allow differing sides a way to discuss sector separation
in a fair, unbiased way. We guess that's why they hired the
Environmental Defense Fund to be the host in Tampa with the blessing of
the Gulf Council’s Executive Director. The entire workshop was
developed behind closed doors. Inquiries about the workshop were
unanswered or answered with lies. The Council staff has shown extreme
animosity towards the recreational angler, continuing its thwarting of
public input.
NOW is the time for YOU to stand up
and be counted.
The sketchy
agenda was assembled without any input from the public or any anglers. A
small group of charter operators, spurred on by Environmental Defense
Fund’s (EDF) push for catch shares in the recreational fishery, claim
that the private recreational angler is out of control, using this
argument as a basis for keeping the proposed quotas to themselves and
renting it back to the recreational angler. The plan would exclude most
of the charter captains in the Gulf from participating. Greed is
rampant in this plan.
Most of the
charter captains throughout the Gulf oppose this idea of sector
separation. These captains realize that their customers are recreational
anglers. Why does this bad idea keep marching? There is some big money
behind this bad idea. The Environmental Defense Fund EDF is
financing this move, at the bidding of some large institutional
investors, including Walmart. Do some research on this socialist group,
and realize that if we begin losing more and more of these battles, what
we're losing isn't just our right to fish. It's our right to be
Americans.
To let you
know what we're facing, the EDF put on a special workshop in
Jackson Hole, Wyoming two weeks ago to prepare their legion of advocates
for this upcoming meeting. What in God's name is so interesting about
Wyoming that environmentalists intent on changing our lives don't want
to spend their money here?
The big picture-
You
shouldn't have to have a degree from Harvard to have seen the Green
movement generate billions in profits for global concerns. While keeping
the planet healthy is something any human being is responsible to do,
turning it into a global industry wasn't done by accident. And it's
exactly what's happening here.
Using the
shroud of environmentalism, the George Soros' of the world can gamble on
closing the fisheries for a couple years in order to squeeze out
EVERYONE. This eventually drives the dollar-value of catch shares to
zero. Once the shares are worthless, investors step in, buy them out,
and , we predict, then fund the scientists to find that the fish have
miraculously recovered. By then, you and I will have no real chance to
retain a fish that we catch.
The
captains that are buying into this are desperate. The economy, the Deep
Water Horizon, and just being down-and-out has made our brothers and
sisters in our beloved sport easy to mislead. Under the promise of
income and special treatment, the people behind the SOS initiative are
just using them at the expense of the recreational angler.
What can YOU do about
this? Show up and be counted in Tampa during the sector separation
workshop. Scheduled from noon Monday, November 8th to noon
Wednesday, November 10th, this ‘workshop’ is the work of EDF.
Can you make any of the workshop? Please email us at
FRA@tampabay.rr.com if you plan to
attend.
We need
several people to attend full time, as well as a HUGE turnout Monday
afternoon. You don’t need to speak. Just BE THERE and BE COUNTED. You
will have the opportunity to meet some of the people who want to take
your fish. Let them know with your presence that you will not be a
victim of theft. Bring a camera.
If you
can’t make the start of the meeting Monday, you should still make every
attempt to show up Monday afternoon at some point during the meeting,
even if it is 4 or 4:30. This is going to be a critical time for you to
be counted. ‘Public input’ for what it is worth, is scheduled for 4:30
to 6 PM this day only.
The meeting
will include several breakout sessions (divide and conquer?) which will
require a solid presence of charter captains and recreational anglers.
See the agenda
The
Gulf Council is requesting that you send them an email if you plan to
participate. It is not a requirement, as we understand.
gulfcouncil@gulfcouncil.org
They are only providing
seating for about a hundred in the audience. We expect many times that
to show up. |
