Across the country, preventing or limiting recreational anglers from accessing public fisheries resources is being touted as a new way to manage fish populations, undermining the achievements of proven fisheries management methods that focus on conservation and promote sustainable fishing.
As a result, the past 10 years have seen a dramatic increase in bans on recreational fishing that impact our nation’s 60 million anglers.
Please read more about the current threats to recreational fishing on nearly every ocean, lake, river or stream and take action to protect your right to fish our nation’s public waterways.
National Issues
- Conserving the Magnificent Billfish
- Efforts to Ban Lead in Fishing Tackle
- Ethanol Damage to Motorboat Engines
- Managing Our Oceans and the Great Lakes
- Urge Congress to Support New Legislation that Opens More Federal Lands to Recreational Fishing
- Federal Recreational Fish Hatcheries are on the Chopping Block
- Congress Must Make Fishing a Priority on our Nation’s Public Lands
- Improving Federal Marine Fisheries Management
- Improving Fisheries Habitat on a Grand Scale
