Monday, January 11, 2010

Local charter fishermen plan to join national protest in D.C. | national, charter, plan - News - Northwest Florida Daily News

Local charter fishermen plan to join national protest in D.C. | national, charter, plan - News - Northwest Florida Daily News: "DESTIN — They protested in Fort Walton Beach and on the city’s harbor. Now they are taking it to Washington, D.C.

More than a dozen Destin boat captains are planning to join others from up and down the Gulf Coast and East Coast in a “United We Fish” march on the Capitol on Feb. 24.

The march is to protest of the “unintended impacts” of the Magnuson-Stevens Conservation and Management Act, the federal fisheries law that was revised in 2007."