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Senate Hearing on Newsom’s Budget Trailers
Newsom wants to include as a package of “trailer bills” attached to the state budget that must be completed by June 15.
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America’s Outdoor Recreation Act Reintroduced in U.S. Senate
It failed to pass Congress despite its unanimous approval in the Energy and Natural Resources Committee.
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Senate Drops California Sportfishing License Reform for 2020
California anglers have every reason to be disappointed ...
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U.S. Senate has unanimously designated June Great Outdoors Month
For the second year in a row, the U.S. Senate has unanimously designated June “Great Outdoors Month!” Active outdoor fun on America’s public lands and waters continues to enjoy bipartisan support.
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Senate Defeats Bill that Would Weaken Protections Against Aquatic Invasive Species
Today, the U.S. Senate defeated S.1129, the Coast Guard Authorization Act of 2017, based on its inclusion of a provision – the Vessel Incidental Discharge Act (VIDA) - which would have weakened Clean Water Act protections against aquatic invasive species entering the Great Lakes though the ballast water of ships. The Senate defeated a motion to limit debate on the bill 56-42, needing 60 votes to proceed.
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Billfish Conservation Act Passes U.S. Senate
Conservationists and anglers are applauding the U.S. Senate for passing S. 396, a bill to amend the Billfish Conservation Act of 2012. The bipartisan legislation sponsored by Senators Bill Nelson (D-Fla.); Marco Rubio (R-Fla.); Jerry Moran (R-Kan.), and Joe Manchin, III (D-W.Va.), passed by a voice vote on October 2.
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Recreational Fishing Leaders Testify in U.S. Senate
The U.S. Senate Commerce Subcommittee on Oceans, Atmosphere, Fisheries, and Coast Guard held a robust hearing entitled "Reauthorization of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act: Oversight of Fisheries Management Successes and Challenges." The Subcommittee heard from two panels of witnesses representing recreational, commercial and subsistence fishermen.
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ASA provides testimony during U.S. Senate field hearing on Magnuson-Stevens Act Reauthorization
The American Sportfishing Association (ASA) called on Congress to address the unique challenges of federal saltwater recreational fisheries management as it considers reauthorizing the nation’s primary law governing federal saltwater fisheries management.
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Yamaha Marine Group President will testify at U.S. Senate field hearing
Live video feed of hearing available on Yamaha Outboards YouTube Channel SOLDOTNA, Alaska--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Yamaha Marine Group President Ben Speciale will testify at a U.S. Senate field hearing held by Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), Chairman of the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Oceans, Atmosphere, Fisheries, and Coast Guard, on Wednesday, August 23, 2017, at Kenai Peninsula College in Soldotna, Alaska from 1:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. AKDT.
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CA fishing license reform bill passes State Senate
California State Senate Unanimously Passes Tom Berryhill’s Fishing License Reform Bill
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Senate Commerce Committee Advances Billfish Conservation Act
Conservationists and anglers are applauding the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation for advancing S. 396, the Billfish Conservation Act. The bill, introduced in February by U.S. Senators Bill Nelson (D-Fla.), Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) and Jerry Moran (R-Kan.), was adopted and reported favorably without amendment during an executive session on May 18.
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Anglers Score a Win in Senate Environment & Public Works Committee
Recreational anglers scored another big victory last week -- and so did the economy of the entire Gulf of Mexico -- as the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee approved an amendment by Louisiana Senator David Vitter to permanently expand state control of reef fish, including the prized Gulf red snapper, from 3 to 9 miles offshore for the three northern Gulf states.
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Seafood Harvesters Praise Senate Port State Measures
Seafood Harvesters of America issued the following statement on the passage of H.R. 774, the "Illegal, Unreported, and Unregulated Fishing Enforcement Act of 2015" in the United States Senate:
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Sign the Petitiion to Save Delta Fishing
Fish and Game biologists have found through their studies that the Striped Bass, Largemouth Bass and Smallmouth Bass have nothing to do with the declining numbers of Salmon and Delta Smelt. They claim it is the fault of record low water flows through the delta due to diversion of nearly half the fresh water entering the delta by both the California Aqua Duct and Delta Mendota canal systems.
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Senate Appropriations Bill Casts Uncertainty on Conservation Funding
Deep cuts to key conservation programs in Senate legislation prompt partisan backlash that could impede the bill; sportsmen urge Congress to address funding decreases
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Alabama Gill Net Bill Dies in State Senate
The bill to allow net fishing on the Tennessee River died in the Senate this legislative session, and the sponsor said he won't bring it back next year.
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California Fishing License Bill Passes State Senate
(Sacramento, CA): Today, the California State Senate passed the California Sportfishing Stimulus Act of 2015 unanimously. Senate Bill SB 345, sponsored by the California Sportfishing League (CSL) and authored by Senator Tom Berryhill and Assembly Member Frank Bigelow, aims to address California's unprecedented decline in fishing participation and increase fishing license sales.
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