The 2012 multi-coastal fishermen's rally in Washington, D.C. — now a month off, and two years down wake from the prototype that proved recreational and commercial interests could agree on the need for Congress to write some flexibility into the Magnuson-Stevens Act — is set for the same precise place focused on the same precise goal.
Only the ante has changed, said Jim Hutchinson Jr., managing director of the organizing Recreational Fishing Alliance.
"We are approaching an election, and they have not listened to us," said Hutchinson, whose group organized the 2010 "United We Fish" rally at Upper Senate Park, and has again taken the lead structuring an event already granted federal permits for noon on Wednesday, March 21.
As many as 5,000 attended the 2010 rally, and Hutchinson hopes and expects the upcoming reunion to be at least as large, with organizers on a steep learning curve.
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