shimano says what?

[muldoon]

From Shimano.  Yes, the fishing reel company:  I own 2 of their reels, I have never heard of them in a political context, and never anything fearmongering like this.  It essentially makes the case that due to an international law or UN treaty it exists a possibility that there will be no fishing allowed, or hugely regulated in the near future.  It allegedly places all USA owned waters in the hands of the UN with no provisions for public use.  Part of me says this is obvious noise, but given the source ...  I just cannot imagine a world with no fishing. 

http://fish.shimano.com/publish/content/global_fish/en/us/index/articles/feds_to_60_million.html

IRVINE, Calif. USA – October 5, 2009 – A recently published administration document outlines a structure that could result in closures of sport fishing in salt and freshwater areas across America. The White House created an Interagency Oceans Policy Task Force in June and gave them only 90 days to develop a comprehensive federal policy for all U.S. coastal, ocean and Great Lakes waters. Under the guise of 'protecting' these areas, the current second phase of the Task Force direction is to develop zoning which may permanently close vast areas of fishing waters nationwide. This is to be completed by December 9, 2009.

Dave Pfeiffer, President of Shimano American Corporation explained, "In spite of extensive submissions from the recreational fishing community to the Task Force in person and in writing, they failed to include any mention of the over one million jobs or the 6o million anglers which may be affected by the new policies coast to coast. Input from the environmental groups who want to put us off the water was adopted into the report verbatim – the key points we submitted as an industry were ignored."

Recreational fishing generates a $125 billion annual economy in the United States and supports jobs in every state according to government figures. Through the Sport Fish Restoration program, anglers have provided more than $5 billion through excise taxes on fishing tackle to fishery conservation and education for decades.

.. more at link

[MountainDon]

At keepamericafishing.org there is a page where one can send a letter to the Whitehouse, Congress, etc.

http://capwiz.com/keepamericafishing/issues/alert/?alertid=14119696

It's enough to make one crazy 

[Windpower]

You can read this pleasant little report produced at the behest of the Presidents Proclaimation here



http://www.whitehouse.gov/assets/documents/09_17_09_Interim_Report_of_Task_Force_FINAL2.pdf



do a 'find' on "sustainable" and "overfishing"

forget firearms, he's after your semi-automatic fishing rod

[muldoon]

I am having a hard time believing this is real and not some paranoid rambling. 

The concept of handing over our waters to the UN is unbelievable, it's an outright dissolvement of sovereignty.  How can any nation willing give up it's water?  What about the trade routes through them?  The national security implications?  ALL the damn OIL out in the water?  The livelihood of millions in the fishing industries, millions in the freshwater recreational fishing industries?   Those people who need to fish for food (and I was one of them growing up), and not to mention hello our FRESH WATER drinking supply.

This just flatly sounds like tinfoil conspiracy theory silliness, but it's as credible as it can get.  The damn link windpower posted was from the whitehouse.gov ... 

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I cannot believe this, I must be misunderstanding this. 

[Sassy]

Just another aspect of UN Agenda 21!