National Hunting and Fishing Day is September 25, 2010.
National Hunting and Fishing Day
A Great Tradition, Source of Pride Since 1972
In the 1960s, hunters and anglers embraced the era’s heightened environmental awareness but were discouraged that many people didn’t understand the role that
sportsmen played—and continue to play—in the conservation movement. In 1972, with urging from the National
Shooting Sports Foundation, Congress unanimously authorized National Hunting and Fishing Day on the fourth Saturday of every September. On May 2, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon signed the first proclamation of the annual celebration.
Today, National Hunting and Fishing Day remains a great
promotion for outdoor sports and conservation—as well as a
source of pride for hunters and anglers nationwide.
FAST FACTS
Funding from hunters
helped America restore:
Whitetail Deer
1900: Only 500,000 left
Now: Over 30 million
Wild Turkey
1900: Only 100,000 left
Now: Over 7 million
Funding from anglers helps manage America’s 3.5 million miles of rivers, 40.8 million acres of lakes, 34,400 square miles of estuaries, 58,000 miles of ocean shoreline and 277 million acres of wetlands.
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