I don't trust snopes. It is run by a husband and wife team with strond democratic ties. The thing about fishing that scares me is this is just the "foot in the door" that the PETA and others want so they can spill their vemon. I know its not a good comparison but England gave Hitler Austria and some other "spoils" in hopes of apeasement. I can recall the newsreel showing Chamberlin stepping off a plane and waving a piece of paper saying "I have peace for our times". The rest as they say is histroy. Obama may not be gunning for fishermen the crowd he runs with is.

Here's Vitter's response to my email:
 
Dear Friend,  
 
 
This week I wrote President Obama a letter expressing my sincere concerns with his administration's efforts to unilaterally exclude fishing in waters off Louisiana's Coast.  
 
 
President Obama has created the Interagency Ocean Policy Task Force under the guise of protecting our lakes, oceans, coasts and their ecosystems and resources.  This task force is working on a secret zoning plan that would give it a say over what activities get to  happen on public lands and waters, and they would make these decisions without any public input.  
 
 
The Obama Administration is proposing to use the most far reaching and questionable legal authority it can conjure to achieve what a handful of special interest groups have always wanted -- limiting the access of U.S. resources to U.S. citizens.  And coastal states are set to suffer the economic and social impacts of an agenda-driven administration that does not have fishermen's interests in mind.  
 
 
There has been virtually no public or Congressional input before using this questionable legal authority to decide to cut off fishing access.  ESPN covered this issue earlier in the week and the strong outrage that is beginning to resonate throughout the country over this unbelievable activity by the administration.  
 
 
Fishing is a social, cultural, and economic bellwether for the health of a great many Louisiana communities.  Unilateral action by the Obama administration to sever fishing from the soul of Louisiana by zoning off our oceans arbitrarily is an outrageous federal reach into the state of Louisiana, and I assure you I'll keep fighting against it.  
 

Rattlecork, you don't need to look to far to find someone that voted for obama. They might not admit it but odds are someone who has commented on this thread voted for him.