Title: Letter from Dante Fascell to James Watt, April 6, 1982, concerning fishing in the Everglades

Summary: Florida Representative Dante B. Fascell writes to Department of the Interior Secretary James Watt concerning the case of Organized Fishermen of Florida vs. the Department of the Interior. This case would reverse regulations set in 1980 which would phase out all commercial fishing in the Everglades National Park by 1985. Fascell points out the overwhelming public opinion that fishing should be banned in the Park and urges Watt to protect the Everglades.

Creator: Fascell, Dante B.

Collection Title: Marjory Stoneman Douglas Papers

Collection No.: ASM0060

Container: Box No. 25; Folder Title: Everglades Protection Association.

Coverage Temporal: 1980-1989

Coverage Spatial: Everglades (Fla.)

Date: 1982-04-06

Genre: Correspondence

Repository: University of Miami. Library. Special Collections

Series: Series II. Topical Files

Subject: Fishing; Land use; Environmental protection

Physical Description: 1 typewritten leaf

Repository: Digital Collections

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Source: From: Letter from Dante Fascell to James Watt, April 6, 1982, concerning fishing in the Everglades