Register Today: NMTA Annual Meeting, December 13, featuring aerial show Splash

Register today for the 2012 NMTA Annual Meeting, set for Thursday, December 13, at the Maritime Event Center at the Bell Harbor Conference Center located on the Seattle waterfront.

Join fellow NMTA members and staff for a fun, social evening starting at 6pm followed by NMTA's Year-in-Review presentation by President George Harris, and the giving of Industry Awards including the first ever Nate Bahner award recognizing a rising young star in the marine business. The evening concludes with a sneak-preview of Splash! - the new, high-energy aerial acrobatic performance that will be the featured attraction daily at the 2013 Seattle Boat Show.

The NMTA Annual Meeting is sponsored Capital Benefit Services, Inc & EPK & Associates, administers of NMTA's Health Insurance program.

What: NMTA Annual Meeting 

Where: Maritime Event Center, Bell Harbor Conference Center - Seattle (Directions) 

When: December 13, 2012 - 6-9 pm 

Registration: $20 per person 

Includes drinks and heavy hors d'oeuvres, plus parking validation in the Bell Street Pier Parking Garage located across from the event site at 9 Wall Street. Enter at the corner of Alaskan Way and Wall Street.

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER TODAY!

NMTA event in Port Townsend

NMTA co-hosted a very special evening with the marine trades and NMTA members in Port Townsend. Over 120 people showed up to support recreational boating and NMTA's legislative priority (the Marine Tourism Bill). Just as importantly, Reps. Van De Wege and Tharinger as well as Sen. Hargrove's Legislative Assistant was in attendance to hear from us. The Peninsula Daily News covered the story and here it is (link).

Help Pass the Sportsmen's Act today

Do your part! Help pass the Sportsmen’s Act of 2012

Urge your Senators to vote YES for this historic package of fishing legislation

As an angler this is the most important legislative action you can take all year.

In the next few days, your U.S. Senators are expected to vote on the most comprehensive package of sportsmen’s legislation in recent years. Introduced on September 10, 2012, the Sportsmen’s Act of 2012 (S. 3525) includes 15 bills that will benefit the sportfishing community, as well as recreational shooters and hunters. This historic legislation provides for increased access, habitat conservation and improved fish and wildlife management.

With a possible vote within days it is crucial you send a message to your Senator today.

Individual provisions included in this bill that are important to the sportfishing community are: The Hunting, Fishing and Recreational Shooting Protection Act, the National Fish Habitat Conservation Act, and Making Public Land Public Act.

From improving habitat conservation to increasing public access to protecting the use of traditional fishing tackle, this bill would have monumental impacts on anglers and hunters and maintain our conservation heritage. Please voice your support now for this monumental bill!

Visit this link to send your message today! 

Action Alert: Send Governor Gregoire one more message about the Recreation Resource Account

Action Alert: Restore the Recreation Resource Account

Action Alert: NMTA members have the opportunity to lobby Governor Gregoire one last time and the issue is near and dear to our hearts. Please take one minute to send along a message to her to restore the $3.3 million that the Legislature took from the Recreation Resource Account.

Follow this link and hit send: http://www.votervoice.net/groups/nmta/advocacy/?issueid=29858

Go Vote!

If you haven't mailed in your ballot, please do so immediately. Not only will candidates and their campaigns stop calling you but also campaigns can then spend their limited resources targeting voters who haven't voted yet. They have lists that track all of that information. Speaking of tracking, if you live in King County, you can track whether your ballot has been received. I just tried it out and discovered that my signature was illegible. Here's the link: http://info.kingcounty.gov/elections/ballottracker.aspx

Also, if you are wondering who NMTA is supporting for the various races, I'd be glad to share that with you. Just drop me a line (peter@nmta.net) or call me (206.634.0911). Near the top of the ticket, NMTA-endorsed Rob McKenna is running for Governor. NMTA's Political Action Committee has prioritized this race over all the other ones. For more info on Rob, take a look at their site: http://www.robmckenna.org/action

Now stop reading and go vote.