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Recreational fishing community still sees the need for legislative action to require allocation reviews In response to decades of criticism over not examining how the nation’s public marine fisheries resources are divided among fishing stakeholders, NOAA Fisheries released a Fisheries Allocation Review Policy that describes potential criteria for reviewing fisheries allocations. The recreational fishing and…

Bills in both the Wisconsin house and senate that would give sportsmen an exemption to laws prohibiting the crossing of railroad tracks by pedestrians, failed to pass during the 2016 legislative session. Under current Wisconsin law, no person may enter or remain on railroad tracks and tracks cannot be crossed unless at a designated crossing….

On August 2, staff from the offices of Congressional Sportsmen’s Caucus (CSC) Members joined others from the sportsmen’s community at the Congressional Sportsmen’s Foundation’s (CSF) annual August Recess Shoot-Out for a trap, skeet, and sporting clays competition. CSF President Jeff Crane welcomed more than 200 attendees, and praised CSC staffers for their work on behalf…

On July 14, sportsmen’s groups, industry leaders, and representatives of the California Legislative Outdoor Sporting Caucus (Caucus), including Co-Chair Senator John Moorlach, gathered in Dana Point, California, for a day of off-shore sportfishing. The event, which was hosted by the California Sportfishing League (CSL), was the Caucus’ inaugural fishing event. The most recent of several…

The Congressional Sportsmen’s Foundation recently hosted events at both the Republican National Convention (RNC) on July 19, and the Democratic National Convention (DNC) on July 26. The RNC Stars and Stripes Shoot-Out was a success with many senators and representatives representing the Congressional Sportsmen’s Caucus (CSC), state legislators representing the National Assembly of Sportsmen’s Caucus (NASC),…

On July 19, Delaware House Bill 289 (DE HB 289) was signed into law by Governor Jack Markell providing sportsmen and women the opportunity to hunt deer on five specified Sundays on private lands at landowner discretion and on public lands as designated by government agencies. DE HB 289 was championed by the bipartisan, bicameral…