Saturday, September 23, 2006 is the 35th National Hunting and Fishing Day, and a new nationwide survey of Americans 18 years old and older shows that a strong majority of Americans support hunting and fishing.

From The Weekly, a Georgia-based neighborhood newspaper:

This year those celebrating National Hunting and Fishing Day will also be able to celebrate at least a decade of public support for their activities, according to a nationwide poll.

The nationwide survey, conducted by Responsive Management of Harrisonburg, Virginia, found that support for hunting and fishing has remained strong over the past decade with approximately every 3 out of 4 Americans approving of legal hunting and more than 9 out of 10 approving of recreational fishing.

"We have been seeing public support for hunting increase in several states over the past decade where we had data but this is the first nationwide study where we could verify that public support has increased over the past decade. In 1995, 73 percent of Americans approved of hunting while in 2006, 78 percent approved of hunting. Support for fishing nationwide, as well as in numerous states where we have conducted studies, remains very high," says Mark Damian Duda, executive director of Responsive Management. Although approval of fishing has decreased slightly, dropping only 1.7 percentage points from 95 percent in 1995 to 93.3 percent in 2006, most Americans approve of recreational fishing.

The results of this survey reflect the opinions of randomly selected U.S. adult residents based on a scientific telephone survey of 813 Americans conducted from August 31 to September 9, 2006. The sampling error is 3.44 percentage points.

Complete survey results are available here.

National Hunting and Fishing Day is celebrated the fourth Saturday of every September, and remains the most effective grassroots effort ever undertaken to promote outdoor sports and conservation.

Click on 'Read More' for more on the history of this important day, and on activities planned for this years' celebrations.

September 21, 2006
By Howard Nemerov

The United Nations still plans to outlaw the Second Amendment. The question is: If we give up our sovereignty, will the UN provide for our safety? See
how well they did in other countries where civilians were disarmed.

Click here to read the entire article from Howard Nemerov, an accomplished writer and good friend to Buckeye Firearms Association.

NOTE: Nemerov appeared on NRANews.com's Cam & Company Thursday, September 21 at 9:40 p.m. to discuss this article! The archived broadcast will be available until 9:00 p.m. Friday evening.