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Help Us Restore the Sportfisheries Affected by the Gulf Coast Hurricanes
According to the most recent figures in Sportfishing in America, sportfishing in the Gulf Coast area supports more than 27,000 jobs with over $2.1 billion in annual income. However, due to hurricanes Katrina and Rita, the sportfish habitat and facilities in Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas have suffered, and will continue to experience, major losses.

In an effort to restore Gulf Coast sportfisheries and fishing facilities, the FishAmerica Foundation has established the FishAmerica Gulf Fund. The Gulf Fund will provide grants to local sportfishing clubs and conservation organizations to help restore sportfish populations, their habitats and fishing facilities affected by the Gulf Coast hurricanes.

We Need Your Help!
According to the American Sportfishing Association, sportfishing in the Gulf of Mexico represents a total economic impact of $8.1 billion and without your help in restoring one this country’s greatest natural resources, the economic impact could be just as devastating as the initial physical damage caused by the hurricanes.

Please click on the link below to donate to the FishAmerica Gulf Fund. Your donations will help FishAmerica provide the funding needed to restore sportfishing along the Gulf Coast.

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The FishAmerica Foundation is the conservation and research foundation of the American Sportfishing Association. FishAmerica unites the sportfishing industry with conservation groups, government agencies, fishing tournaments, corporations and charitable foundations, investing in fisheries conservation and research across the country. FishAmerica provides matching grants that empower citizen conservationists in their own communities. Since 1983, FishAmerica has provided more than $8 million for more than 800 fisheries conservation and research projects nationwide.

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An aerial view of restored wetlands along Delehide Cove. Volunteers enhanced nearly 400 acres of coastal habitat along Galveston Island's West Bay. Wetlands, provide critical spawning, rearing and foraging habitat for many recreationally-important fish including striped bass, flounder, menhaden, sea trout, and croaker. Wetlands also absorb flood waters and act as a barrier to storm surges.		Oyster shell sits on a barge before placement to create two new three-acre oyster reefs in Back Bay Biloxi and St. Louis Bay. The Mississippi Department of Marine Resources and its partners including the Coastal Conservation Association created the oyster reefs which are closed to harvesting and will provide critical spawning and rearing habitat for sportfish while improving water quality.
The aerial photos of the New Orleans City Park before and after Hurricane Katrina. The New Orleans City Park Lagoons provide 11 miles and 120 acres of natural and man-made water bodies for fishing and boating in the nation’s fifth largest urban park. The project improved fish access into the lagoon, enhanced water quality for these and the freshwater species in the lagoons, and improved angler accessibility and safety. (Before: January 11, 2004. After: September 2005—water started to recede.)

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