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Anglers for the Right to Clean Water

In 1994, Florida anglers organized to help pass the last successful grassroots citizens' initiative to amend the Florida Constitution.

There are more legislated obstacles in our way this time, but it is STILL possible to accomplish!

Grab your fishing buddies and get started:

Make sure everyone you know has signed and sent in their petition.
Get your favorite bait & tackle shop to become a Petition Location (a place where folks can swing by and sign / drop off their petitions).
If you have a couple hours every now and then, volunteer to help collect petitions at your club meetings, on the fishing pier, wherever people are.
If you can't volunteer, consider donating!
Most importantly for the sake of this cause, share this call to action out with everyone you know. Learn more about it. Talk about it. Raise awareness and understanding of why and how this initiative is so critical to saving and protecting our fisheries for future generations.

Congratulations to Captain Tony Nesbitt of Great Daye Fishing Charters for submitting this winning entry in the Florida Fins & Frames Fish Pic Tournament!

Check out these compelling reasons why so many anglers support the Florida Right to Clean Water initiative:

A) The right to clean water is so important to me because the ecosystem is slowly diminishing populations of fish, and seagrasses are becoming less and less! All from MANMADE pollution. So much money is made off of these waters and not enough is put back into it. I want generations and generations to be able to enjoy the same things I did!

B) The Right to Clean Water means the Right to Clean Food. For him.

C) Without clean water the fishery would die. Not long following, so will we.

D) I love our fishery & hope it can stay healthy for future generations.

E) Without clean water, clean breeding grounds, and clean estuaries, we will no longer have an environment to catch fish.

F) Right to clean water is important to me because the water is my second home. I grew up running around chasing fish just like this one.

G) Clean water is important not just to me, but to our fisheries. I want my son to enjoy fishing in the future, just as I do now. Our planet deserves our respect, let's give it.

H) Clean water gives the fish a healthier environment to live in and helping to keep it clean ensures the future of many species.

I) The Right to Clean water is important because water is life. We need water only second to air. It hydrates us, cools us, feeds us, and it even transports us. Water is life.

J) The Right to Clean Water is so important to me -- so we can preserve the water habitat for our children and future anglers and provide them with a better fishery than we have.

K) So we can maintain and up keep God's creatures and ensure that our children’s children can enjoy the passion we do.

L) It is important to keep our water and aquatic life flourishing, clean, and healthy because a lot of people depend on water and marine life to stay alive.

M) The right to clean water matters to me because it is a livelihood that I have lived in since I was knee high! Any time we as anglers can clean up the waters it is important to do so and protect our wildlife, it matters to us to protect the waters because of those that are careless on the environments that they harm.

N) Clean water brings more fish to strengthen the fishing industry.

O) So we can pass on our traditions and protect our wildlife.

P) Because of father and daughter moments like this!

Q) So we can protect these beauties!

R) Fishing is a way of life for me. My grandfather, my dad and all my family before me have lived this way of life, too, and I love it with everything I have. The Right to Clean Water protects all the resources that are important to keep living this way of life.

S) The right to clean water keeps the ecosystem healthy and allows the fish to thrive for the up and coming generations!

T) The right to clean water is so important to me because it is what my family used to survive on. My great grandpa had a fish camp on the St. John’s river where he caught catfish and sold them to local markets. He raised a family of 11 all supported from this fish camp. The land I live on today is because my great grandpa had a clean waterway to make a living on. I’ve seen our rivers and waterways change so much over the last years. The right to clean water is a must.

Anglers for the Right to Clean Water

Check out these compelling reasons why so many anglers support the Florida Right to Clean Water initiative:

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