First-Ever National Policy on Recreational Fishing Announced

At the conclusion of a national Saltwater Recreational Fishing Summit in Alexandria, Virginia, held on April 1 and 2, Eileen Sobeck generated enthusiastic applause by promising more than 100 recreational-fishing-community leaders that “We will start work on a formal NOAA Fisheries policy on [saltwater] recreational fishing.” Sobeck, the recently appointed assistant NOAA administrator for fisheries, said in a subsequent statement, “NOAA Fisheries will actively engage the recreational-fishing community, and we  will do our part to find cooperative solutions.” “I was really happy to hear this news directly from Ms. Sobeck as we closed,” Jeff Angers told me at the summit. Angers, president of the Coastal Conservation Commission, served on the steering committee for the recent report, “A Vision for Managing America’s Saltwater ...Image may be NSFW.
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