RalphH wrote:
With all due respect, the question RalphH asked was what strategy was
PETA going to follow....
that wasn't my question at all ... I asked you:
"how do you see this ban progressing? Given that
many states (and the Province in Canada I live in) have legislation
guaranteeing the right to fish, what political jurisdictions do you think
will be the bell weather locations for the progression of the ban? Can you
name one jurisdiction where such a ban has had serious political momentum"
I didn't mention PETA at all.

I misunderstood your question.

The way I see this progressing is that animal rights interest groups
will have steadily increasing public support and will become more and
more organized. They will go after specific bans and various 'minor'
successes then build on that. This would be coincedent with a
population that is ever more urbanized. I believe that the last census,
for example, saw people retreating from wilderness. The city 'loft'
society, if you will. The tournements and pure catch and release
sportsfishing (modern 'trophy' hunters with no biological reason for
harming fish) will be the initial target, and, perhaps, the last
target. I believe it will be impossible, in the foreseeable future
anyway, that these groups can have the same affect on subsistence or
other management (with sound biological reasons) strategies. We must
always question our relationship with animals and chose an ethical
strategy. I've always felt that pure catch and release offered the
least defense of all the options, it will have to be compromised, IMO.

Good yakkin' with ya Ralph.

Halfordian Golfer