Here are some reasons to join CCA


1. CCA helped establish net bans in 4 states, and the prohibition of many destructive gear types. They have been instrumental in establishing far-reaching conservation legislation on both state and federal levels.

2. CCA has a legal defence fund that has ben used to defend net bans and bycatch reductions devices, support pro-fisheries legislation, and enforce existing regulations.

3. CCA has led the battle to protect recreational anglers freedom to fish. When it is adopted into law, the Freedon to Fish Act will provide reasonable guidelines for the use of Marine Protected Arreas by fishery managers and restrict the use of no-fishing zones for recreational fishermen to instance where all other fishery management tools have failed to fix the problem.

4. CCA has a registered lobbyist in Washington D.C. and hasa been active in critical fisheries since 1984. They currently retain as many as 17 stae and federal loyyyists.

5. CCA makes decisions from the bottom up, involving our membership in all the regional and national policy positons.

6. CCA has more than 80 stae and national committees, 150 national board directors, more than 900 board members -on local, state, and national levels- and tens of thousands of active volunteeers contributing to the organizations devleopment and growth

7. CCA members include a former U.S. President, former Cqbinet members, Congressmen, Senators, ICCAT Commissioners, Fishery Management Council members, Governors, State Legislators and state and federal fishery mangers.

Its basically just getting started on the west coast, less than 2 years. The sportsman around here have never had this kind of a far reaching organization to help with education, protection and restoration of our natural resources that we all love so much.

So come on board, join up and help. Its not going to happen over night and it may take as many as 10 years to get some things done, I have watched the decline of a lot if not all of our fishery resources over the last 35 years, and this is the best thing I've seen, it actually give me some hope that something constructive can get done to help us all...