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Sportfishing Industry Current Issues

ASA Government Affairs staff monitors existing and potential laws and policies that may have a significant impact for ASA’s members and the sportfishing community. Listed below are issues that ASA is currently tracking.

If you have questions regarding one of these issues or would like more information on an issue not listed here, please contact ASA Policy Fellow Alyssa Hausman, 703.519.9691, x244.

Access
• Marine Protected Areas

California’s Marine Life Protection Act
Biscayne National Park
Oregon Marine Protected Areas

• Sportfishing Access in Cape Hatteras National Seashore Recreation Area
• Catch Shares as a Method to End Overfishing
• Marine Fishery Closures

Conservation
• 2011 Fishery Science Improvement Act Fact Sheet
• Wallop-Breaux Reauthorization
• National Fish Habitat Action Plan
• Restoration of the Klamath River Salmon Populations
• Saving Striped Bass by Managing Menhaden
• Lead in Fishing Tackle

Tax and Trade
• Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization and Job Creation Act of 2010
• Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008
• Federal Manufacturers’ Excise Tax—2006 IRS Director’s Directive

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