Government Affairs – Reauthorization of the Sport Fish Restoration and Boating Trust Fund
2025 marks the 75th anniversary of the Dingell-Johnson Act and the creation of the Sport Fish Restoration and Boating Trust Fund—one of the most successful yet underrecognized conservation programs in the U.S. ASA’s Mike Leonard shares how this excise tax on fishing gear and boat fuel funds vital fisheries conservation and public access projects across the country, and what’s being done to ensure its reauthorization by Congress.
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Vice President of Government Affairs, ASA
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