http://sports.espn.go.com/outdoors/saltwater/news/story?id=4975762The
Obama administration will accept no more public input for a federal
strategy that could prohibit U.S. citizens from fishing the nation's
oceans, coastal areas, Great Lakes, and even inland waters.
AP/Luis M. AlvarezOne sign at the United We Fish rally at the Capital
summed up the feelings of recreational and commercial fishermen.
This announcement comes at the time when the situation supposedly still
is "fluid" and the Interagency Ocean Policy Task Force still hasn't
issued its final report on zoning uses of these waters.
That's a disappointment, but not really a surprise for fishing industry
insiders who have negotiated for months with officials at the Council
on Environmental Quality and bureaucrats on the task force. These
angling advocates have come to suspect that public input into the
process was a charade from the beginning.
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