It’s been a year and a half since President Obama signed the Billfish Conservation Act (BCA) into law. This historic piece of legislation bans the importation of marlin, sailfish and spearfish into the continental United States and also takes away our dubious distinction of being the world’s largest importer of billfish. This effort took nearly four years of blood, sweat and tears for IGFA and our partner Wild Oceans but, in the end, things worked out. You’d think that that since the act was signed into law that I wouldn’t really have anything to write about on this subject. However, such is not the case. You see, now the BCA is on the National Marine Fisheries Service’s (NMFS) plate. It’s NMFS’s job to develop a rule for the law so they can implement it, which—in my simple mind at least—shouldn’t be that ...Image may be NSFW.
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