Quotes about Fishing Rights

George W. Bush

Human beings and fish can co-exist peacefully.

Bush was a poor orator with a very limited command of the English language although he was quite bright and well educated. He was speaking to an audience which was very concerned about the survival of fish stocks in the Midwestern rivers and lakes and others who fished for a living or sport. Limiting fishing rights hurt the latter group and not doing so further diminished the fish stocks which were already in peril from over fishing and other factors. Bush wanted to say that there were opportunities for humans to fish and the fish stocks to thrive if there could be compromises. But the phrase that came from his mouth missed the mark and produced another gaff in his collection.

Frank Gaffney

The most desirable aspects of the Law of the Sea Treaty pertain to navigational rights.

Michael Gove

The common fisheries policy essentially gave other European Union nations unfettered access to our fish stocks and - I would hope - that if we leave the European Union, we can once more see the ports of Peterborough and Fraserhead and Grimsby flourishing, because we will take back control of our territorial waters.

Etienne Schneider

Fishermen own the fish they catch, but they do not own the ocean.

Daniel Pauly

There is no need for an end to fish, or to fishing for that matter. But there is an urgent need for governments to free themselves from the fishing-industrial complex and its Ponzi scheme, to stop subsidizing the fishing-industrial complex and awarding it fishing rights, when it should in fact pay for the privilege to fish.

Norman MacCaig

I used to fish the Border rivers, but nowadays you have to queue up for a shot and I can't stand that.

Herbert Hoover

There are only two occasions when Americans respect privacy, especially in Presidents. Those are prayer and fishing.

John Adams

How could we restrain our fishermen, the boldest men alive, from fishing in prohibited places?

Michael Gove

I recognise that fishing is perhaps not the most high-employment industry in this country, but it's a symbol of what we lost when we entered the E.U.: control over national resources that, if we retained them, we could have husbanded in our interest and, indeed, in the interest of others.

Tim Kaine

I was the legal counsel in the effort to amend the Virginia Constitution to give Virginians the right to hunt and fish constitutionally, and we are one of the few states in the country to protect that right.

Isabel Gillies

Skeptical of strangers, lobstermen are keepers of secrets, working in the howling wind and hot sun, the icy snows, and bewildering fog. When I was growing up, the lore was that they had the right to shoot anyone who messed with their traps.

Michael Gove

My father had a fishing business in Aberdeen destroyed by the European Union and the Common Fisheries Policy.

Kaj Leo Johannesen

We have been fishing these waters for 150 years. The EU will not decide what we are doing in our waters.

The EU had imposed a fishing quota on EU countries fishing for mackerel, But the Faroe Islands are specifically not part of the EU. However, the Faroe Islands have been a self-governing country within the Danish Realm since 1948. Over the years, the Faroese have taken control of most domestic matters. Areas that remain the responsibility of Denmark include military defense, police, justice, currency and foreign affairs. In the last years, the global warming had changed the water temperature and the mackerel in their waters has increased many fold, So the Faroese unilaterally increased their mackerel quota. The EU threatened to boycott the Faroese mackerel—both purchasing and transshipping. The EU claimed that since the Faroe Islands are so close to Denmark, the Faroese share their waters with the EU.

Henry David Thoreau

Such a man has some right to fish, and I love to see nature carried out in him.

Yoweri Museveni

The island is in Kenya, the water is in Uganda... But the [Luos, a Kenyan ethnic group] are mad, they want to fish here but this is Uganda.

Mark Noble

Modibo Maiga, Guy Demel and Momo Diame can't understand how you go fishing and chuck them back. They say, 'Bring it in, I'll eat it.'

Noah Webster

Why not include a provision that everybody shall, in good weather, hunt on his own land and catch fish in rivers that are public property and that Congress shall never restrain any inhabitant of America from eating and drinking, at seasonable times, or prevent his lying on his left side, in a long winter's night, or even on his back, when he is fatigued by lying on his right.

Fishing Rights Quotes