Re: CCA
Posted: May 15th, 2011, 9:44 am
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Re: CCA
Posted: May 15th, 2011, 9:48 am
2008 With continued prompting from CCA Florida, the FWC Commissioners once again reject efforts to subvert the constitutional ban on gill nets. Although the constitutional netting restrictions have been in place for nearly fifteen years, there are still factions within the commercial industry who refuse to accept the legal reality that the constitutional prohibition on gillnets means no gill nets.
CCA Florida works with FWC in providing vital information to the Gulf Council about the reduced angler fishing effort caused by economic issues. The result was a plan that achieved resource protection goals with much less impact on the recreational fishery.
CCA Florida joins the Wildlife Foundation of Florida and the FWC in the saltwater hatchery and habitat initiative to help ensure healthy fisheries for generations to come.
CCA recommends with success that the Gulf Council and National Marine Fisheries Service take emergency action to prohibit bottom longline gear in the Gulf of Mexico off of Florida due to the excess take of seaturtles. The Gulf Council implemented a six month closure on the longline fishery.
CCA expanded its member volunteer program to get advisory panel and other appointments for federal fishery councils and advisory panels and FWC stakeholder committees. The purpose is to expand our influence in fishery related programs. There are currently 2 CCA Florida members on federal fishery councils, 5 members on CCA fishery committees, 11 members on federal advisory panels, and 9 members on other assorted state panels, committees and stakeholder groups.
CCA Florida began the Conservation Law Enforcement Recognition Program. In coordination with FWC Law Enforcement leaders, officers who excel in conservation enforcement were selected and recognized at our chapter banquets throughout the year.
2009 CCA Florida lobbies successfully with the FWC to repeal the shoreline exemption from Florida’s saltwater fishing license. The repeal ensures better data collection for Florida’s fisheries and, most importantly, will save Florida anglers from having to pay 20 million dollars in additional federal angler registration fees.
CCA Florida worked with Everglades National Park in their general management plan to rebuild damaged seagrass beds using bird stakes and also provided recommendations to keep angler access at a maximum.
CCA Florida works to assure angler access by providing recommendations and public testimony on numerous attempts to unnecessarily restrain access, including the attempted creation of no motor zones as mitigation for maintenance dredging in Lee County.
CCA files a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Commerce, NMFS, and NOAA to revaluate Amendment 29. Amendment 29 gives away a majority share of Gulf grouper to the commercial fishing industry through a catch share program.
2010 At the urging of CCA Florida and others, the FWC extends Florida state waters protection regulations and no sale status for bonefish into adjacent federal waters. FWC also begins rule makings to extend Florida waters protection on permit into federal waters.
By design, CCA has not engaged in most habitat issues. While they are very important, the organization has instead focused on its core mission of marine conservation, angler access and fisheries management.
It's obvious we fundamentally disagree, Limitless. But I'll continue to support CCA because it has and continues to represent my best interests. Do I agree with everything it does? Not necessarily. But I certainly haven't found any other grassroots conservation group that does half as much and I've been in the trenches since 1980.
CCA Florida works with FWC in providing vital information to the Gulf Council about the reduced angler fishing effort caused by economic issues. The result was a plan that achieved resource protection goals with much less impact on the recreational fishery.
CCA Florida joins the Wildlife Foundation of Florida and the FWC in the saltwater hatchery and habitat initiative to help ensure healthy fisheries for generations to come.
CCA recommends with success that the Gulf Council and National Marine Fisheries Service take emergency action to prohibit bottom longline gear in the Gulf of Mexico off of Florida due to the excess take of seaturtles. The Gulf Council implemented a six month closure on the longline fishery.
CCA expanded its member volunteer program to get advisory panel and other appointments for federal fishery councils and advisory panels and FWC stakeholder committees. The purpose is to expand our influence in fishery related programs. There are currently 2 CCA Florida members on federal fishery councils, 5 members on CCA fishery committees, 11 members on federal advisory panels, and 9 members on other assorted state panels, committees and stakeholder groups.
CCA Florida began the Conservation Law Enforcement Recognition Program. In coordination with FWC Law Enforcement leaders, officers who excel in conservation enforcement were selected and recognized at our chapter banquets throughout the year.
2009 CCA Florida lobbies successfully with the FWC to repeal the shoreline exemption from Florida’s saltwater fishing license. The repeal ensures better data collection for Florida’s fisheries and, most importantly, will save Florida anglers from having to pay 20 million dollars in additional federal angler registration fees.
CCA Florida worked with Everglades National Park in their general management plan to rebuild damaged seagrass beds using bird stakes and also provided recommendations to keep angler access at a maximum.
CCA Florida works to assure angler access by providing recommendations and public testimony on numerous attempts to unnecessarily restrain access, including the attempted creation of no motor zones as mitigation for maintenance dredging in Lee County.
CCA files a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Commerce, NMFS, and NOAA to revaluate Amendment 29. Amendment 29 gives away a majority share of Gulf grouper to the commercial fishing industry through a catch share program.
2010 At the urging of CCA Florida and others, the FWC extends Florida state waters protection regulations and no sale status for bonefish into adjacent federal waters. FWC also begins rule makings to extend Florida waters protection on permit into federal waters.
By design, CCA has not engaged in most habitat issues. While they are very important, the organization has instead focused on its core mission of marine conservation, angler access and fisheries management.
It's obvious we fundamentally disagree, Limitless. But I'll continue to support CCA because it has and continues to represent my best interests. Do I agree with everything it does? Not necessarily. But I certainly haven't found any other grassroots conservation group that does half as much and I've been in the trenches since 1980.