ESPN Scaremongering: Obama To Ban Fishing?!

Here’s a new one that’s getting everyone on the Internet worked up: an ESPN blog today claimed that the Obama administration is very close to an initiative that could “prohibit U.S. citizens from fishing the nation’s oceans, coastal areas, Great Lakes, and even inland waters.”

Of course, this is a bunch of baloney, and a key tip-off phrase here should be the quote ” Big Green anti-use organizations.” Big Green, like Big Banks? Doubtful that the whole Green movement is on par with the other entities talking heads assign the “Big” label to. Also, the entire premise of Barack Obama banning any sort of recreational fishing is based entirely on the fact that the Interagency Ocean Policy Task Force is no longer accepting public input. So that probably means they are close to announcing some sort of initiative, whatever that may be. Limits on fishing in some overly-depleted areas? Maybe. But an outright ban on personal fishing? States makes enough money off of fishing licenses that this doesn’t even make any sense. It’s really the Big Fishing corporations that should be worried about this task force, not the everyman angler who goes out to catch a big one on Sundays.

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