Originally Posted By: driftfishin
Some of you can't seem to figure out why the CCA is screwing over the sports fisherman. It's because they are not a SPORTFISHING advocacy group, they are a CONSERVATION group. What boggles my mind is why sports fishers are even in it because the CCA is targeting you as well as the gillnetters.



You are 100% correct about not being able to figure out why CCA is trying to screw over the sportangler.
And they are doing this in the name of conservation, so you'd expect them to be strongly aligned with other conservation oriented group that just doesn't seem to be the case.
You'd also expect that they would be using lobbyists that are strongly associated with conservation oriented issues, but again that's not the case.
Instead of having a stable full of conservation/environmental oriented lobbyists, CCA instead has individuals more closely aligned with big energy, big oil, dam operators, electric companies and aluminum producers.
If CCA wants to project an image on conservation, then I'd strongly suggest dumping the resource extraction specialists they now employ as lobbyists.