President Trump by Executive Order Restored Commercial Fishing Once Blocked By Obama and Biden

In 2008 the Communist dictatorship of the Great Mufty, Barack Hussein Obama closed all commercial fishing in state waters around the United States for our fishermen.

The commercial fishermen then were told they would lose their federal fishing licenses if they fished in state waters with their federal licenses in an unconstitutional attack on free markets.

I thus initiated a rally in 2008 and blocked the Destin Pass with the support of hundreds of commercial fishing boats in our area in solidarity with the fishermen whose lively hoods (including making payments on their fishing boats) was decimated.

I led the first commercial fishing boat into the pass accompanied by hundreds of boats behind me and the local news media.

This event was republished in 2013 to keep the public informed of this massive assault on our commercial fishing fleets.

I also held a rally in 2009 with Brigitte Gabriel at the Fort Walton Beach Convention Center at my own expense as a fundraiser to help our local commercial fishing fleets, raising them thousands of dollars.

The commercial fishermen in turn returned the money to me which was then donated to Navy SEAL families who lost family members in the never ending Middle East wars.

I made a promise to the commercial fisherman that one day I would use my contacts in Washington DC to get those state fishing waters reopened and their state and federal fishing licenses restored.

Today April 17th 2025 President Trump signed the first of many Executive Orders reopening state and federal fishing waters and restoring the licenses of commercial fishermen in these areas starting in the Pacific Ocean in an area the size of three California’s and next will be Maine and the East Coast state fishing waters.

WATCH: President Trump Signs Fishing Executive Orders with Samoan Guests in The Oval Office

Promises kept.

©2025 Geoff Ross USN retired Surface Warfare/Air Warfare. All rights reserved

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