Disturbing article

[Tall Tails]

http://sports.espn.go.com/outdoors/salt ... id=4975762

I cant tell you guys how important it is to stand and make yourself heard! We are going to have to fight for what we believe in.

[Time Out]

Who elected all the Democrats?

[Capt Vince Pierleoni]

Thanks Brian. It's everything that I have been warning everyone about since I joined the board. We must have our eyes wide open. L O "UNITED".

[johnbrownt]

I think everyone of us should print this to keep on our boat and tell anybody who gets on our boat they should read it and think about it next time they vote. I am going also going to send it to everyone in my mail box.

[big easy]

NOAA? Yeah I'll start listening to them when they can get the weather and wave forecasts right.They suck.Another bunch of overpaid Government

slugs.

[on the lam]

This ideological president of ours is mearly paying lip service to the less than 20% of the population who are far left nuts and who are demanding him to act on their behalf. Lets hope this is nothing more than that. With fishing being in a dead heat with apple pie and baseball for being americas #1 thing to do as an American, he would insure himself as a one term president.... If he hasn't already

[salmonboy41]

HAHA really thats just messed up like really!!! Some people really need to get a life a job or something! Another thing here that bothers me is that no one has hierd of this going on. just us LOU members but this is totally sick! If they stop us from fishing I riot in the streets! like when did america stop being the land of the free?

[FISHINMAN]

FB or Twitter this to get the word out to a lot more people who may be fishermen and aren't a part of this site

[axion2090]

http://sports.espn.go.com/outdoors/salt ... id=4975762

EDIT: Topic merged w/duplicate topic

[Time Out]

Fox news covered this story. Did anyone see it on local or evening news?

[LongLine]

So this is what that writer is upset about. Looks to me like someone said: "We've heard enough opinions, it's past the deadline, so It's time to get down to business."

THE WHITE HOUSE

Office of the Press Secretary

For Immediate Release June 12, 2009

June 12, 2009

MEMORANDUM FOR THE HEADS OF EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES

SUBJECT: NATIONAL POLICY FOR THE OCEANS, OUR COASTS, AND THE GREAT LAKES

The oceans, our coasts, and the Great Lakes provide jobs,food, energy resources, ecological services, recreation, and tourism opportunities, and play critical roles in our Nation's transportation, economy, and trade, as well as the global mobility of our Armed Forces and the maintenance of international peace and security. We have a stewardship responsibility to maintain healthy, resilient, and sustainable oceans, coasts, and Great Lakes resources for the benefit of this and future generations.

Yet, the oceans, coasts, and Great Lakes are subject to substantial pressures and face significant environmental challenges. Challenges include water pollution and degraded coastal water quality caused by industrial and commercial activities both onshore and offshore, habitat loss, fishing impacts, invasive species, disease, rising sea levels, and ocean acidification. Oceans both influence and are affected by climate change. They not only affect climate processes but they are also under stress from the impacts of climate change.

Renewable energy, shipping, and aquaculture are also expected to place growing demands on ocean and Great Lakes resources. These resources therefore require protection through the numerous Federal, State, and local authorities with responsibility and jurisdiction over the oceans, coasts, and Great Lakes.

To succeed in protecting the oceans, coasts, and Great Lakes, the United States needs to act within a unifying framework under a clear national policy, including a comprehensive, ecosystem-based framework for the longterm conservation and use of our resources. In order to better meet our Nation's stewardship responsibilities for the oceans, coasts, and Great Lakes, there is established an Interagency Ocean Policy Task Force (Task Force), to be led by the Chair of the Council on Environmental Quality. The Task Force shall be composed of senior policy-level officials from the executive departments, agencies, and offices represented on the Committee on Ocean Policy established by section 3 of Executive Order 13366 of December 17, 2004. This Task Force is not meant to duplicate that structure, but rather is intended to be a temporary entity with the following responsibilities:

1. Within 90 days from the date of this memorandum, the Task Force shall develop recommendations that include:

a. A national policy that ensures the protection, maintenance, and restoration of the health of ocean, coastal, and Great Lakes ecosystems and resources, enhances the sustainability of ocean and coastal economies, preserves our maritime heritage, provides for adaptive management to enhance our understanding of and capacity to respond to climate change, and is coordinated with our national security and foreign policy interests. The recommendations should prioritize upholding our stewardship responsibilities and ensuring accountability for all of our actions affecting ocean, coastal, and Great Lakes resources, and be consistent with international law, including customary international law as reflected in the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea.

b. A United States framework for policy coordination of efforts to improve stewardship of the oceans, our coasts, and the Great Lakes. The Task Force should review the Federal Government's existing policy coordination framework to ensure integration and collaboration across jurisdictional lines in meeting the objectives of a national policy for the oceans, our coasts, and the Great Lakes. This will include coordination with the work of the National Security Council and Homeland Security Council as they formulate and coordinate policy involving national and homeland security, including maritime security. The framework should also address specific recommendations to improve coordination and collaboration among Federal, State, tribal, and local authorities, including regional governance structures.

c. An implementation strategy that identifies and prioritizes a set of objectives the United States should pursue to meet the objectives of a national policy for the oceans, our coasts, and the Great Lakes.

2. Within 180 days from the date of this memorandum, the Task Force shall develop, with appropriate public input, a recommended framework for effective coastal and marine spatial planning. This framework should be a comprehensive, integrated, ecosystem-based approach that addresses conservation, economic activity, user conflict, and sustainable use of ocean, coastal, and Great Lakes resources consistent with international law, including customary international law as reflected in the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea.

3. The Task Force shall terminate upon the completion of its duties. The Task Force's recommendations and frameworks should be cost effective and improve coordination across Federal agencies.

This memorandum covers matters involving the oceans, the Great Lakes, the coasts of the United States (including its territories and possessions), and related seabed, subsoil, and living and non-living resources.

This memorandum is not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by any party against the United States, its departments, agencies, or entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any other person.

Nothing in this memorandum shall be construed to impair or otherwise affect the functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget relating to budgetary, administrative, regulatory, and legislative proposals.

The Chair of the Council on Environmental Quality is hereby authorized and directed to publish this memorandum in the Federal Register.

BARACK OBAMA

If you look at the coastal areas, every state has been doing what they want, some absolutely nothing, some a tremendous amount. There are a lot of agencies involved all over the country - West coast, East coast, Gulf & Great Lakes. What he's doing is trying to set up a unified approach to all areas

He may go after commercial fishing (which wiped out the Great lakes years ago) but he's not after the little guy's rights to go fishing.

Tom B.

(LongLine)