There was a little associated press story in the MetroWest News (Boston, sort of) on Sunday, (just a space filler) citing the huge decrease in the number of hunters across the US. The overall drop was about 10% since 1991 with (Surprise Surprise) California leading the pack with a greater than 30% drop in numbers. I work in an area (Boston) where my hobbies both hunting and fishing are considered a kind of throw back joke, I don't talk about them much. It was interesting that the reason given for this huge drop had less to do with the usual culprits of video games and political correctness and more to do with the pressure of living in the 21st century. The number one reason given by hunters who had seriously curtailed or stopped their hunting was lack of time. I also fell into this trap early in my working life by bowing to pressure from work and wife and kids etc. thinking I always had time. I blew it neither of my children now 17 and 14 are interested in hunting or fishing because I did not have the "Time" to introduce them to this world early enough. I consider this a failure on my part.
The point is that until I decided to make these activities a priority and more importantly made those around me know that this was important to me I could have fallen into this trap. The steady decline in the numbers of hunters because of these reasons (nothing anti hunting involved) puts the sport at risk because there are fewer of us who have a vested interest in protecting our right to hunt. How is this fishing related?? The numbers of licensed fisherfolk is also declining, although not to the same extent. I would bet the farm that the reasons are the same- no time. We should be very interested in the way hunters protect their sport because we as fisherman are not too far behind. PETA already has a Fishing is murder sign on the causeway entrance to the outer banks in North Carolina. Sorry to be so windy Mike M -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Wendt (Contractor) Sent: Monday, March 14, 2005 11:49 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [VFB] RE: NY hunting & fishing Outlawed?? Yeh, but they don't stop the activists. On more than one occasion, I've been pelted with rocks from some of those eedjits up on the hills on the Gunpowder. Mark At 11:28 AM 3/14/2005, you wrote: >Maryland also has antiharrassment laws. > >Steve, >In Maryland >http://stevebrettell.point2homes.biz > > >-- >_______________________________________________ >NEW! Lycos Dating Search. The only place to search multiple dating sites >at once. >http://datingsearch.lycos.com
