Protecting Right to Hunt and Fish

Hunters and anglers are working to protect their hunting and fishing rights by amending their state’s constitution. The Great Lakes Radio Consortium’s Lester Graham reports:

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Hunters and anglers are working to protect their hunting and fishing rights by amending their
state’s constitution. The Great Lakes Radio Consortium’s Lester Graham reports:


Hunters and fishers in seven states have already won amendments to their state constitutions that
protect the right to hunt and fish. The latest serious effort is in Wisconsin where a constitutional
amendment will appear on the ballot on April first.


Dan Gunderson is with the Wisconsin Hunting and Fishing Alliance. He says there’s not a real
threat to hunting and fishing rights right now…


“It’s about ten, twenty, thirty years from now. What kind of rights are we going to have to hunt
and fish. And there have been efforts throughout the country to restrict those rights and restrict
that access and we want to make sure that there’s not an unreasonable restriction of hunting and
fishing in the future.”


Gunderson says fewer and fewer politicians hunt or fish, which his group believes might mean
misguided laws against hunting and fishing. Hunting and fishing proponents are preparing to
introduce similar amendments in other states.


For the Great Lakes Radio Consortium, this is Lester Graham.