An estimated 4,000 recreational and commercial fishermen descended on Washington, D.C. on Wednesday to let congress know there are big problems with fishery management, specifically the Magnuson-Stevens Act, and they need to be fixed. By all accounts, the message got across.
"The United We Fish rally showed what can you do when you're unified, what you can do when you get together and say, "I'm going going to D.C and make this work.' " said Jim Hutchinson, managing director of the Recreational Fishing Alliance, one of the lead organizers for the rally.
"It was grass roots, it was all the local shops, local captains, commercial guys and individual anglers. It was just great the way the democratic process unfolded," he said. "It was really something extraordinary."