The annual Congressional reception was held Tuesday night in the Dirksen Senate
Office Building on Capitol Hill.
Senator Ted Stevens (R-AK) talks with Bill Shedd, AFTCO
Derrick Crandall, American Recreation Coalition and Joel
Holtrop, USDA Forest Service
Tom Franklin, The Izaak Walton League of America (IWLA),
picks up some gear donated by ASA members
Chris Adamo, Joint Economic Committee inquires about
some fishing gear.
Monita Fontaine, National Marine Manufacturers Association
(NMMA) and Gordon Robertson, ASA
ASA President and CEO Mike Nussman shakes hands with
Representative Howard Coble (R-NC)
Bob Eakes, Red Drum Tackle Shop; Michael Soukup, National
Park Service; Dave Goodwin and Judy Swartwood, OBPA; and Fran Minella,
National Park Service director
Mike Nussman, ASA, shakes hands with Senator Frank Lautenberg
(D-NJ)
Gordon Robertson, ASA; Fran Minella, National Park Service
director; and Jim Connaughton, chairman, Council on Environmental Quality
Carol Forthman, ASA; Glenn Hughes, Sport Fishing magazine;
Tom Raftican, United Anglers of Southern California; and Forbes Darby,
NOAA Fisheries
Jodi Stemler, Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership
(TRCP) and Bob Hayes, Coastal Conservation Association
Future of Fishing Award Honoree
Jim Cummins, Interstate Commission on the Potomac River Basin (ICPRB)
and his wife, Nancy, daughter, Caroline, and son, Dirick with Joe Hoffman,
ICPRB.
Noreen Clough, BASS/ESPN Outdoors; Mike Weimer, U.S.
Fish and Wildlife Service; and Doug Beard, United States Geological Survey
