The Truth About the Magnusun Act and What To Do About It 12/04/08

The Truth About The Magnusun-Stevens Act, What I Learned, and What You Absolutely Need To Know:

The new Magnusun act which was signed by President Bush was not written by him – in fact, it was written by a few Congress-people, endorsed by the Secretary of Commerce, and presented to the President for his signature.

Now here is where it gets interesting, and where we are getting Ripped Off.

It was written by 18 Congress-people.

Here is a list of who they are, what political party they belong to, and MORE IMPORTANTLY, What state they come from.

Take a minute and review it – what you will see should really Tick (you can exchange that word for another) you off …..

BECAUSE 8 OF THEM COME FROM STATES THAT HAVE ABSOLUTELY NO SALT WATER INDUSTRY WHATSOEVER!!!

1. Bill Sali ......................Idaho-1st, Republican
2. Madeline Bordallo ...Guam-Delegate, Democrat
3. Dale Kildee ...............Michigan-5th, Democrat
4. Ron Kind ...................Wisconsin-3rd, Democrat
5. Nick Rahall ...............West Virginia-3rd, Democrat
6. Eni Faleomavaega ...American Samoa-Delegate, Democrat
7. Tom Cole ..................Oklahoma-4th, Republican
8. Neil Abercrombie ....Hawaii-1st, Democrat

Above is the 8 Congresss people that have NO water Access, NO Saltwater Industry, NO Saltwater related jobs, or anything else remotley related to salt water fishing. (Hawaii is just too far away to make any sense at all)

Why in the world should they be allowed to participate in making policy about the saltwater fishing industry??

Now for the rest of the list -

1. Henry Brown ........South Carolina-1st, Republican
2. Jim Saxton ............New Jersey-3rd, Republican
3. Wayne Gilchrest ..Maryland-1st, Republican
4. Cathy Rogers ........Washington-5th, Republican
5. Robert Wittman ...Virginia-1st, Republican
6. Don Young ............Alaska-At Large, Republican
7. Solomon Ortiz ......Texas-27th, Democrat
8. Frank Pallone .......New Jersey-6th, Democrat
9. Patrick Kennedy ..Rhode Island-1st, Democrat
10. Lois Capps .............California-23rd, Democrat

We are Missing a few State Representatives that actually have a Saltwater Fishing Industry which creates jobs within that State –

here is a list of the ones that are missing:
ME, NH, MA, CT, NY, DE, NC, GA, FL

Are you beginning to see there is something wrong here??

Don’t take my word for it, go here http://clerk.house.gov/committee_info/index.html?subcomcode=HII15 and see for yourself!

Getting back to the Magnusun act, it was written by politicians –

Politicians get elected by people who VOTE – if we want to stay in business, we need to contact the politicians.

We need voters to also contact them via letters – lots and lots of letters.

Getting interviews on talk radio, and TV will also help as well.

Go here for a copy of the Magnusun-Stevens Act: http://www.fakr.noaa.gov/sustainablefisheries/msa/amended07.pdf

FYI: NMFS director Bill Hogarth is appointed to his position by an elected official. He will most likely be losing his post once the messiah Obama gets in office.

The new Secretary of Commerce will be Bill Richardson of Arizona. (yea – a secretary of commerce from AZ may know a bunch about rattle snakes and lizards and Mexicans, but little about salt water fish)!!!

Congress-people are elected to office.
The Fisheries Council people are appointed to their positions by elected officials.

Their bosses are NOT the fishermen, nor do they hold an elected position. … Their bosses are the people we elect to office.

If we want to remain in business, we need to take our power back by going up against and working with the Fisheries Council people, and also by going around them and get to the proper elected officials.

The politicians are elected to office – we need to make enough noise, and apply enough pressure on them to watch out for us and make changes.

Going to any other people but the ones in charge is nothing more than a waste of time – that goes for state people as well. The political system in every state runs the same way.

For instance, the director of the North Carolina DMF is appointed by the governor of NC.
I am willing to bet the director of the DEC in NY is appointed by the Governor of NY.

You see where I am going here?

Simply going to Fisheries meetings, participating on AP’s, writing letters to council members is a necessary thing to do, but nowhere enough. We need to take it to Washington, as well as the State Capitols.

Furthermore, we cannot do this separately – we need to do this as a group.

Change can only come from those making the laws – not the ones stuck with the job of enforcing them.

The Councils are put in place for the members to “figure out” how to implement the laws with the lease amount of damage …. They cannot change the laws passed down to them.

Please send me an email with your comments .. better yet, post them on this blog.

Also, send this around - help get as many people on this thing as possible. We need as much help as we can get.

I have a lot more ideas, and am doing more homework. More will be posted as I get it together.

I leave this posting with a little something for you to ponder ... "If you continue doing what you have always done, you will continue to get what you have always gotten. If you want something different than what you have, you need to so something you have never done."

What can you do differently today to give you a different tomorrow?

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