Some of the environmental groups and their subsidized fishing "partners" have reached new depths of dishonesty in recent weeks in their fight against the so-called Jones Amendment.
Indeed, some of the enviros and their subsidized fishing "partners" have reached new depths of dishonesty in recent weeks in their fight against the so-called Jones Amendment. That's the measure that, filed by North Carolina Congressman Walter Jones to cut off NOAA's funding for any new catch share programs, emphatically passed the U.S. House as part of the compromise budget proposal.
How far off the rails have these groups gone?
Well, the Gulf of Mexico Reef Fish Shareholder's Alliance — a group partially underwritten by the Environmental Defense Fund — has gone so far as to refer to the Jones Amendment the "Anti-Fishermen's Act" — a blatant lie.
And the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation last week announced grants totalling $2.25 million to 18 recipients on three coasts to advance Lubchenco's catch share fishery policy, which essentially manages fish allocations as in a commodities market, and is already steering more control to bigger corporations while driving smaller, independent, family fishing boats into economic oblivion.
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