Member Benefits: Boosting Your Bottom Line
Bringing premier benefits to our members guides everything we do at the American Sportfishing Association (ASA). For more information on the American Sportfishing Association, contact us at (703) 519-9691, or joinnow@asafishing.org. To request information, visit www.asafishing.org/tellmemore.
Protecting Your Business Interests
ASA fosters strong relationships with Members of Congress, conservation and recreation partners and state and federal government leaders to ensure that sportfishing interests are well represented when policy decisions are made. Advocating on behalf of all our members is ASA’s way of keeping watch on the existing and potential laws and policies that significantly affect our members’ businesses and sportfishing itself. We give the sportfishing industry a resonating voice in influential circles in all states and the nation’s capital.
ASA’s online Legislative Action Center enables members to easily contact their Members of Congress or reach the media within a geographic area to assist ASA in its advocacy efforts. ASA members can easily find information about pending legislation and other actions that could impede access to their favorite fishing and destination spots.
Adovacating for Our Nation's 60 Million Anglers
ASA is the parent organization for KeepAmericaFishing™. Since 1933, ASA has represented the interests of the entire sportfishing community to help ensure that we have clean water, abundant fish and plenty of places to go fishing. In July 2010, ASA launched KeepAmericaFishing as a way for anglers to get involved in advocating for their sport. The website – www.KeepAmericaFishing.org – is the vehicle through which anglers can engage in advocacy, sign up to receive news and alerts and show their support by contributing to the campaign.
ASA members have the right to use the KeepAmericaFishing brand and logo to promote the nation’s anglers’ right to sustainably fish on our public waterways. If you are interested in receiving an exclusive KeepAmericaFishing promotional packet, please go to www.ASAfishing.org/tellmemore. As a corporate partner you can provide financial and in-kind support to KeepAmericaFishing. If you are interested in becoming a corporate partner of KeepAmericaFishing, please contact Gordon Robertson at 703-519-9591
Business and Networking Opportunities
ASA produces the International Convention of Allied Sportfishing Trades (ICAST), the premier trade event for the sportfishing industry and the largest showcase of fishing gear and accessories in the world. ICAST 2012 will be held July 11–13, 2012, at the Orange County Convention Center, Orlando, Florida. This event draws 7,000 attendees annually; a network of your industry colleagues.
Each October, ASA hosts the Sportfishing Summit, the association’s annual business meeting and the nation’s leading sportfishing community networking event. The 2011 Summit will be held October 12-14, at the Loews New Orleans Hotel in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Through our West and East coast consumer shows – The Fred Hall Shows…The Ultimate Outdoor Experience and ASA/Eastern Fishing & Outdoor Exposition - we’re securing sound investments for the industry’s and fishing’s future.
ASA also offers its members a variety of discount packages on business products and services and insurance packages that can help them run a more successful business.
Conservation, Education and New Anglers
The FishAmerica Foundation—www.fishamerica.org—is one of the nation’s leading conservation and research foundations. The foundation is committed to helping keep our fisheries and waterways healthy and abundant with fish. Since its first grant in 1983 which helped improve fishing at a family fishing pond in Oklahoma to providing funds for the removal of fish passage barriers, the foundation has invested $11 million in 1,000 community-based fisheries conservation and habitat improvement projects in all 50 states. The foundation annually provides more than a million dollars in grants to local communities to enhance sportfish populations, restore their habitat, improve water quality and advance fisheries research.
The Recreational Boating & Fishing Foundation—www.takemefishing.org—promotes recreational fishing and boating through the national Take Me Fishing awareness campaign, the Anglers’ Legacy program aimed at encouraging avid anglers to pledge to introduce someone new to the sport, the state fish and wildlife angler recruitment initiative and other activities.
Industry Data Reports
The Benefits to Business from Hunting and Fishing Excise Tax, Sportfishing in America, and a number of other reports and indices are available on ASA’s website or as an exclusive member benefit.
Keeping You Informed
ASA produces two monthly e-updates to keep its members and the broader sportfishing community up-to-date on issues, events and activities of importance to the industry and the sportfishing community. ASA also has several websites and distributes news releases and alerts on issues that impact the industry and recreational fishing.
American Sportfishing Association Insider is a monthly update exclusive to ASA members regarding association and industry news, focusing on advocacy on our Government Affairs activities. ASA will issue a Policy Alert whenever action needs to be taken by our members on a specific issue.
News from the American Sportfishing Association is the association’s monthly e-newsletter for the broader sportfishing community. American Sportfishing includes information about industry news, events, perspectives and trends that affect the sportfishing community. American Sportfishing is also posted on our website, www.ASAfishing.org.
www.ASAfishing.org
ASA’s website is the most comprehensive resource for information about ASA. Our Web site provides current information on industry data and statistics, shows and events, government affairs, member services and our non-profit foundation. We strive to provide all of our key services online, such as policy updates and newsletters.
www.KeepAmericaFishing.org
The KeepAmericaFishing website is the vehicle through which individual anglers can engage in advocacy, sign up to receive news and alerts and show their support by contributing to our efforts to keep public waters open to recreational fishing. Utilize sales, marketing and communications tools created with your business in mind. Contact the ASA membership department for login for this exclusive member benefit.
www.ICASTfishing.org
This site offers all the information that exhibitors and attendees need to know about ICAST, the world’s largest sportfishing trade show. The site includes housing and registration information, the show schedule and events, press room, exhibitor specific information and much more.
Find Us on Facebook
ASA, ICAST, KeepAmericaFishing and the FishAmerica Foundation all have a presence on Facebook. Facebook is one more resource ASA uses to keep our members and the global sportfishing connected and informed about issues facing the industry and recreational fishing.
For more information on ASA and membership, please email joinnow@asafishing.org or call the Membership department at 703-519-9691, x234.
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