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 Mike Leonard, 703.519.9691, x230.
Access
• Marine Protected Areas
California’s 1999 Marine Life Protection Act
Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary (CINMS)
Establishment of Marine National Monuments
Biscayne National Park
Oregon Marine Protected Areas
• Sportfishing Access in Cape Hatteras National Seashore
Recreation Area (CHNSRA)
• The Use of Catch Shares to End Overfishing
• Red Snapper Fishery Closed
Conservation
• Wallop-Breaux Reauthorization
• National
Fish Habitat Action Plan
• Restoration
of the Klamath River Salmon Populations
• Lead
in Fishing Tackle
• Oil
and Gas Exploration and Development in the Rocky Mountain West
Tax and Trade
• Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008
• Federal
Manufacturers’ Excise Tax—2006 IRS Director’s
Directive
Issues Archive
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