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| CCA Hails Breakthrough on Catch Share Management |
Congress directs fisheries managers to address impacts to recreational angling
HOUSTON, TX - Coastal Conservation Association applauds the U.S. Congress for recognizing the need to address impacts to recreational angling as a result of the U.S. Catch Share Policy. Language inserted into the Commerce, Justice and Science Appropriations Bill currently awaiting President Obama's signature directs the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) to provide a report within 90 days of the bill’s enactment on the effect of catch share program management to recreational fishing.
"It is reassuring to know that members of Congress understand the significance of recreational angling and are concerned about policies that may have a negative impact on it," said Chester Brewer, chairman of CCA's National Government Relations Committee. 'NMFS is so mired in its commercial fishing past and present that it cannot seem to even consider a future with a robust recreational fishery. With the language in this bill, Congress instructs the agency to pay attention to what their policies are doing to recreational fishermen."
The language that was included in the bill was supported by CCA, the American Sportfishing Association and the Center for Coastal Conservation and requires the agency to report "how data collection for recreational catches will improve in fisheries where the commercial sector receives catch shares; and how allocation conflicts between recreational and commercial sectors will be resolved." The report is to be provided to the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations.
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| 21 Dec 2009 - 10:07 by CCA North Carolina |
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| South Brunswick High School Receives Support from CCA NC |
Excerpts from The State Pilot
Hillary Snow-Staff Writer
The Coastal Conservation Association of NC presented a $1,500 check to support South Brunswick High School's aquaculture program's flounder hatchery.
Local and state CCA-NC representatives presented the $1,500 check Tuesday and toured the aquaculture facility. They were impressed with the long-term impact of the high school's innovative program.
"CCA was interested in supporting this project because flounder are being over-fished and also because, hopefully, one of the kids in front of you will turn out to be a marine biologist," said Stephen Ammons, executive director of CCA-NC. "In addition to getting more fisheries and resources, programs like this give kids the option of getting into aquaculture programs and working in those fisheries," added Alton Raynor, president of the Cape Fear Chapter of CCA-NC, which encompasses Brunswick, New Hanover and Pender counties.
The aquaculture department will use the $1,500 grant to buy the large amounts of salt needed during the flounder-hatching stage. "Salt was the biggest thing on my wish-list," Barry Bey explained. "It's our largest supply, and we have to buy it in 2,500-pound bags. We hatch our flounder in salt water for the first 120 days before transitioning them to freshwater ponds." One bag of salt, which Bey said costs about $1,700, can last the aquaculture program an entire year.
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| 16 Dec 2009 - 16:04 by CCA North Carolina |
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