The Northern California Fly Fishing Board

Hey Charlie, your link didn't show up. A couple of thoughts though. Why hasn't the media reported any of this? Fox news hasn't even reported it. ESPN hasn't even mentioned it on their station. There's just this one guy that writes some obscure column that's buried way in the back of the fishing section of the ESPN website. How will the government police this fishing ban I wonder? They only have 100 or so F&G wardens in California and can't even enforce any of the fishing regs, how will they keep millions of people from fishing? Do you really think that there is a conspiracy to secretly shut down an entire industry without anyone noticing? That would be like trying to ban boating nation wide without anyone noticing. Or some other multi-billion dollar industry. They couldn't do it if they wanted to. This guy at ESPN is a writer for the saltwater fishing section of their site and he clearly is afraid that Obama backing the international ban on commercial fishing for Atlantic bluefin tuna could lead to a possible ban on sportfishing for Atlantic bluefin here in the US. This is just a paranoid knee jerk reaction to this tuna deal. There's no way to shut down a multi-billion dollar industry like the sport fishing industry without anyone noticing. It would put millions out of work. Besides congress would have to do it. When Obamas presidency is over and this hasn't happened or been reported by anyone in the media I wonder if anyone will post here that it ended up not being true? Maybe they'll say it almost happened but that hundreds of millions of anglers contacted their congressmen and got them to secretly ban together and defeat this evil plot without the news finding out about or reporting any of it. It's impossibly Charlie. The President doesn't have the power to make laws. Only Congress has that power. The only power the President has is the veto. If you really feel this is possible though, contact your congressman and let him know about it.