Maine is notorious for its scenic beauty, ample fishing, some of the finest whitetail deer hunting, moose hunting and bear hunting. The state depends on all these activities to fund its overgrown budgets and provide jobs for the needy. But these days it seems that Maine has become a home base for animal rights groups to force their ideals onto others. It wasn’t too many years ago and such activity as hunting protests were unheard of. Now we have groups protesting fishing.
Over the weekend Saco, Maine hosted the fourth annual shark fishing tournament and groups such as the Humane Society of the United States and the Wildlife Alliance of Maine were out in protest of the event waving banners and placing full page ads in local newspapers lying to the public telling them that this shark fishing tournament was endangering the life of the shark, threatening it to extinction.
Organizers of the event explained that they thought it would difficult for them to be putting the shark at risk as only 14 sharks have been killed in the past four years.
Tom Remington
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