Nothing is immune to labels and in this day and age of slapping a left or right political alignment on everything, fish and game commissions all across America are seeing the same. Is there no longer a bipartisan participation by the two parties in dealing with fish and game issues? Was there ever?

Fish and game issues used to be of concern mostly to hunters, fishermen and trappers. Not so anymore. Now that wildlife issues have become more of a social thing with Americans, the pressures of politics becomes more pronounced and decisions based on political persuasions.

A testimony to all this can be found in an article by Ed Zieralski in the Sign On San Diego. Here’s a piece pulled from his article that talks about how California fish and game issues have become too far left.

Once a group that made bait-and-bullet decisions over a couple of shots of whiskey, the present California Fish and Game Commission spends much of its time dealing with endangered species, fishing and hunting closures and whether to allow aquarium Glofish into the state.

“California”, you ask? “This is my state”, you say. Probably so, as it seems to be the trend. You see as more politicians discover that fish and wildlife issues have social value, that translates into the potential for votes and we all know what happens when votes are involved.

Tom Remington

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