Number: 1989-06
WHEREAS, the National Wildlife Federation continues to be an active and influential voice on a variety of national fisheries resource issues; and
WHEREAS, habitat protection is necessary to sustain productive fish stocks that undergird our Nation’s commercial and recreational fisheries; and
WHEREAS, sustained Federal funding is critical to fisheries management; and
WHEREAS, the National Wildlife Federation remains vigorously opposed to proposals to use funds of the Wallop-Breaux program, financed by American anglers and boaters, to offset the Federal deficit;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the National Wildlife Federation in annual meeting assembled March 16-19, 1989, in Arlington, Virginia calls on Congress to maintain the funding established in FY 89 for the U.S. Forest Service’s Fish and Wildlife Habitat Program and to substantially increase funding for the resource management programs of the National Marine Fisheries Service; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the National Wildlife Federation calls upon Congress to reject efforts to cap and/or divert funds from the Wallop-Breaux program; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the National Wildlife Federation urges Congress to reauthorize the Magnuson Fishery Conservation Act, the Anadromous Fish Conservation Act, and the Interjurisdictional Fisheries Conservation Act, strengthening habitat protection provisions and considering alternatives for reducing harvest pressure for depleted fish species.