Happy New Year and welcome to 2025. It’s been a few weeks since our last edition of Policy Watch and we’re happy to be back. If you missed it, the 118th Congress closed with a flurry of sportfishing industry priority bills, including the EXPLORE Act, ACE Reauthorization Act, WRDA 2024, and the FISHES Act, being signed into law by the President. We’re excited to keep that momentum going into the 119th Congress and look forward to sharing the latest sportfishing industry and recreational fishing policy updates with you each week.
Recreational Fishing Community Outlines Policy Recommendations for Incoming Administration
With 2025 officially underway, the new Congress sworn in and President Trump set to take office in the next few weeks, the sportfishing industry and recreational fishing community are sharing our policy priorities for the next four years with leadership in Washington, DC. The Future of Sportfishing is a comprehensive report highlighting legislative and regulatory opportunities to support our most critical conservation goals for this year and beyond. Click the link below to read our full list of recommendations.
Webinar: The Business case for Sustainability – Insights from Industry Leaders
Join ASA on January 15 at 1:00 PM ET for an inspiring panel discussion on The Business Case for Sustainability, moderated by Rick Crawford, President of Emerger Strategies. Featuring industry leaders from Chelsea Willingham (AFTCO) Lisa VanBladeren (YETI), Daniel Nussbaum (Z-Man Fishing Products), this webinar will explore how integrating sustainability into business operations protects the environment and boosts profitability. This webinar will feature topics covered in ASA’s Sustainability Toolkit. Click the link below to register.
Webinar Recording: Current Landscape of International Trade
In December, ASA and Sorini, Samet & Associates hosted a webinar exploring key international trade issues impacting the sportfishing industry, including tariffs, de minimis imports, excise tax collection, and more. Click below to watch the full recording.
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The American Sportfishing Association (ASA) is the sportfishing industry’s trade association committed to representing the interests of the sportfishing and boating industries as well as the entire sportfishing community. We give the industry and anglers a unified voice when emerging laws and policies could significantly affect sportfishing business or sportfishing itself. ASA invests in long-term ventures to ensure the industry will remain strong and prosperous, as well as safeguard and promote the enduring economic, conservation and social values of sportfishing in America. ASA also gives America’s 55 million anglers a voice in policy decisions that affect their ability to sustainably fish on our nation’s waterways through Keep America Fishing, our national angler advocacy campaign. America’s anglers generate nearly $50 billion in retail sales with a $125 billion impact on the nation’s economy creating employment for 800,000 people.
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