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Originally Posted by whoknows
I think this is a different CCA (The Congressional Coalition on Adoption (CCA)
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Send $$ to the RFA not the CCA.
Sorry but the CCA has sold out they took PEW money and they just like most people in politics now have to pay back for what they received.
The hole article is here:
http://www.joinrfa.org/Press/Hijack20070605.pdf
Read as follows:
Pew is a major grant provider to universities and professors in the marine sciences and
the major provider of funds to environmental groups that push the party line. Those groups
include The National Environmental Trust, Oceana, Earthjustice Legal Defense, the New
England Aquarium, the Public Interest Research Group, National Audubon Society, National
Resources Defense Council, Sierra Club, Conservation Law Foundation, Marine Conservation
Biology Institute, Marine Fish Conservation Network, Wildlife Conservation Society, Friends of
the Earth and the Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership. Combined, these groups have
received over $200 million of Pew money and most have openly endorsed the implementation of
arbitrary no-fishing zones!
The Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership is particularly worrisome. It is
attempting to become an umbrella group for sportsman’s organizations and has attracted the
participation of some fishing organizations with the lure of Pew money. The American
Sportfishing Association and the Coastal Conservation Association are among the board
members of the Partnership. And when the going got tough during the Magnuson Act
reauthorization, they ended up on the same page as the Pew-funded groups.
This is what Congressman Pombo, then chair of the House Resources Committee had to
say recently. “Throughout the long process to reauthorize the Magnuson Act the RFA was
consistently at the table, insisting on sound conservation policies based on the most accurate
science. Their goal was clear, a sustainable fishery so that this generation of recreational
fishermen and the following generations would have fish to catch. Most of the other
organizations engaged in this debate had other agendas or were totally missing in action. At
the end of the 109th Congress it was clear to me that the RFA was the only player left insisting on
protecting the future of recreational fishing. I will always be grateful to them and respect their
tenacity during what proved to be a difficult reauthorization.”
Since the implementation of the Sustainable Fisheries Act in 1996 the management of
U.S. fisheries, while far from perfect, has become a model for the rest of the world. Yet Pew
continues to use scare tactics to drive its agenda domestically while the most egregious problems
can easily be found abroad. Their agenda may sound laudable, but the reality is that their goal is
to stop fishing. Pew used the money of its well-heeled donors like a school-yard bully during the
debate and attacked those who stood in their way. Pew has seriously damaged the ability of
recreational fishermen to do what we love to do – go fishing.
CCA is taking it to the house...
U.S.Sen. John D. Rockefeller IV (D-WV), chairman of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, has invited Coastal Conservation Association to appear before a hearing on Nov. 4 to testify on the National Ocean Policy Task Force’s Interim Report. CCA federal lobbyist Matt Paxton will address the development of the National Ocean Policy and the role for recreational fisheries in ocean, coastal and Great Lakes stewardship.
.stabbing the people who have supported him for years in the back..
