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Originally Posted by PBangler
It’s not about which administration is in office, because the last reauthorization of the Magnuson Stevens Act (MSA) took place in 2006 under a Republican President, with both chambers of Congress having a Republican majority.
It is the result of huge amounts of monies spent by environmental groups to convince the masses in this country, no matter which side of the aisle, the sky is falling with all of our fisheries.
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True, to an extent. I'll get political for a minute - Obama has made the situation much, much worse by appointing Lubchenko to head up the NOAA. Now, all of the regional commissions (that vote on things like closures, etc.) are being packed with environmentalists and Obama is now proposing a larger council to vote on ocean policy initiatives, which if taken over by enviro-whackos, will be absolutely horrible for anglers. This administration is an absolute disgrace in terms of appointing the most radical, outright despicable people to the highest positions of influence in government. Google "Cass Sunstein" to learn about the new "Regulatory Czar" who has argued that eating meat should be illegal, hunting should be illegal and animals should have the right to sue in court with human representation.
That said, the MSA reauthorization went through because some congressman from the midwest has no concern over marine fisheries, his constituents don't care about it, and he votes to do the simple thing which is to just reauthorize it. On the opposite end as Obama, we luckily have two Democrats in NJ who are fighting for us - Pallone and Adler. Our "conservative" Republican, Chris Smith, hasn't even bothered to sign on as a co-sponsor of Pallone's bill.
So while I do agree that it's not a totally partisan issue, any administration that had a campaign bankrolled and supported heavily by the environmental lobby is not to be trusted.
