The American Sportfishing Association’s annual business meeting—the Sportfishing Summit—underscores our desire to bring together the association’s members along with others from the sportfishing community to provide a productive meeting that is timely, useful, and a good business investment.

Make no mistake, most fishing tackle purchases do still occur at brick-and-mortar locations, but for more than a decade the industry has also witnessed a rise in the number of anglers that are looking to the Web when stocking their tackle boxes.

Funding via the Federal Aid in Sport Fish Restoration derived from excise taxes paid by tackle manufacturers, as well as congressionally appropriated Tribal Wildlife Grants, reliable financial backing is provided for essential Apache trout conservation work.