02-08-2003, 12:21 AM
President Bush Seeks $1.3 Billion Budget for U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
This is a small cut from a very interesting article located at [url "http://www.outdoorrelease.com/news_releases/news_detail.asp?ID=657"]http://www.outdoorrelease.com/news_releases/news_detail.asp?ID=657[/url]
The Fisheries program is to receive almost $104 million under the Administration's budget request. This represents an increase of nearly $9 million over the 2003 budget to help implement the program's Vision for the Future. This figure includes $5 million to carry out priority fisheries recovery and restoration activities.
Sport fishing is important to millions of Americans, not only as a recreational activity but as a family experience that strengthens links between children, parents and grandparents and, in doing so, helps guide future generations of our citizens, said U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Director Steve Williams. The Fisheries program's 'Vision for the Future,' with the backing of this Presidential budget request, will help the Service better support the sportfishing community, which has historically been one of this agency's most valuable and valued partners. It also will help efforts to restore imperilled species.
Last year's discovery of the invasive northern snakehead fish in Maryland waters focused national attention on the risk of such introduced species to our waterways and to the native fish that depend upon them. The Administration's 2004 budget request recognizes such threats, and includes an increase of $1 million for the control of aquatic invasive species, such as Asian carp in the Mississippi River drainage and Asian swamp eels in Florida's Everglades.
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This is a small cut from a very interesting article located at [url "http://www.outdoorrelease.com/news_releases/news_detail.asp?ID=657"]http://www.outdoorrelease.com/news_releases/news_detail.asp?ID=657[/url]
The Fisheries program is to receive almost $104 million under the Administration's budget request. This represents an increase of nearly $9 million over the 2003 budget to help implement the program's Vision for the Future. This figure includes $5 million to carry out priority fisheries recovery and restoration activities.
Sport fishing is important to millions of Americans, not only as a recreational activity but as a family experience that strengthens links between children, parents and grandparents and, in doing so, helps guide future generations of our citizens, said U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Director Steve Williams. The Fisheries program's 'Vision for the Future,' with the backing of this Presidential budget request, will help the Service better support the sportfishing community, which has historically been one of this agency's most valuable and valued partners. It also will help efforts to restore imperilled species.
Last year's discovery of the invasive northern snakehead fish in Maryland waters focused national attention on the risk of such introduced species to our waterways and to the native fish that depend upon them. The Administration's 2004 budget request recognizes such threats, and includes an increase of $1 million for the control of aquatic invasive species, such as Asian carp in the Mississippi River drainage and Asian swamp eels in Florida's Everglades.
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