1.   Backing them is Vermont-based Orvis, a sporting goods company that earns millions of dollars a year from sales to recreational anglers.

2.   Businesses catering to recreational anglers are worried, too.

3.   He said he was disturbed to hear that many recreational anglers opposed the possible return of commercial netting of stripers.

4.   It would cut back on the number of nets allowed, require larger holes in the nets, and slash the numbers of cod recreational anglers can take.

5.   Recreational anglers take comparatively few salmon.

6.   The situation was worse in the Gulf of Mexico, where commercial netting and overfishing by recreational anglers caused the population to plummet.

7.   The warnings apply to fish caught by recreational anglers and others who fish for their own food.

8.   Treanor takes exception at the notion that only recreational anglers are being impacting by any new rockfishing restrictions.

9.   Yet such rockfishing limitations not only impact the recreational angler, but also those employed in the sport-fishing industry.