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Joe Negron stated on April 10, 2013 in a gaggle of reporters:
Says PETA "is using this really fancy drone to follow hunters around in some places in other countries."
By Katie Sanders• April 12, 2013
Chain email stated on July 16, 2013 in an email:
A "hidden" provision in the health care law taxes sporting goods as medical devices.
By Eric Stirgus• July 23, 2013
Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife stated on December 12, 2011 in a news story:
Says there have been no cases of wolves killing people in Rocky Mountain states.
By Ian K. Kullgren• December 16, 2011
Greg Abbott stated on January 08, 2016 in a 90-page manifesto decrying federal overreach:
"While states used to have regulatory power over fishing, federal law now regulates down to the tenth of the inch the minimum size of fish that anglers can keep."  
By Dylan Baddour• February 10, 2016
Sheldon Whitehouse stated on June 19, 2012 in a speech on the floor of the U.S. Senate:
"No one in Rhode Island -- not just children, no one in Rhode Island -- should eat more than one serving of freshwater fish caught in our state each month."
By C. Eugene Emery Jr.• July 2, 2012
Instagram posts stated on January 25, 2023 in an Instagram post:
Wind farm construction is a possible cause of dead whales washing ashore in New Jersey.
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Instagram posts stated on July 21, 2022 in an Instagram post:
"Plankton in the Atlantic Ocean is 90% gone."
By Andy Nguyen• July 27, 2022
Bloggers stated on February 11, 2017 in a headline:
"Japanese whaling crew eaten alive by killer whales, 16 dead."
By Joshua Gillin• February 23, 2017
Barack Obama stated on December 01, 2015 in a press conference:
"You go down to Miami and when it's flooding at high tide on a sunny day, fish are swimming through the middle of the streets."  
By Amy Sherman• December 4, 2015
Lamar Alexander stated on November 13, 2012 in in a news release announcing support for the Sportsmen's bill.:
"More Tennesseans have hunting and fishing licenses than vote."
By Zack McMillin• November 18, 2012
Ron Bergeron stated on September 02, 2015 in a Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission meeting:
"There has never been a panther attack in the history of Florida."
By Joshua Gillin• September 8, 2015
Coast Guard stated on July 20, 2015 in news release:
"Every year the First Coast Guard District saves 350 lives in the Northeast."  
By Mark Reynolds• August 2, 2015
X posts stated on March 26, 2024 in a post on X:
“The captain of the container ship Dali…is a Ukrainian.”
By Madison Czopek• March 27, 2024
Nancy Pelosi stated on April 16, 2020 in a statement:
“Even President Trump’s own EPA has admitted that this rule (on air pollutants) threatens to cause serious health problems including brain damage and death and to inflict billions of dollars of economic damage on our struggling economy.”
By Miriam Valverde• April 23, 2020
James Florio stated on December 14, 2011 in a guest column in The Star-Ledger:
"Many types of fish and shellfish from waters across the state are labeled unsafe to eat." 
By Caryn Shinske• January 20, 2012
Barack Obama stated on January 25, 2011 in the State of the Union speech:
"The Interior Department is in charge of salmon while they're in fresh water, but the Commerce Department handles them when they're in saltwater."
By Angie Drobnic Holan• January 26, 2011
Rush Limbaugh stated on March 09, 2010 in his talk show:
People "can't go fishing anymore because of Obama."
By Catharine Richert• March 17, 2010
Elizabeth Warren stated on December 10, 2019 in a policy white paper:
"Roughly one in four fish eaten in the United States was caught here and sent to Asia for processing before being re-imported for American consumers."
By Jon Greenberg• December 13, 2019
Rick Scott stated on September 18, 2013 in a conversation with workers:
"You have to get a license to fish on our beaches."
By Katie Sanders• September 23, 2013
Todd Staples stated on August 31, 2010 in an interview.:
"More people hunt and fish in Texas in a given year than attend the... games of the Dallas Cowboys, the Dallas Mavericks, the Houston Texans and the Houston Rockets combined."
By W. Gardner Selby• November 25, 2010

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