Thank you to Congressman @RussellFrySC for your endorsement and support. I’m honored to have Russell on our team as we fight violent crime, support law enforcement, and protect South Carolina families. Let’s get to work.

For the first time in our organization’s history, SCBFA is proud to endorse Senator @ScSenGoldfinch for South Carolina Attorney General. 🇺🇸🎣 Goldfinch helped cut the nation’s highest boat taxes, fought for state-based fisheries management, funded marine fisheries, and pushed back against federal overreach impacting South Carolina boaters and anglers. Read our full statement from SCBFA Chairman Russ Tomlinson below ⬇️ #SCPolitics #SCOutdoors #SCPol

For the first time in our organization’s history, SCBFA is proud to endorse Senator @ScSenGoldfinch for South Carolina Attorney General. 🇺🇸🎣 Goldfinch helped cut the nation’s highest boat taxes, fought for state-based fisheries management, funded marine fisheries, and pushed back against federal overreach impacting South Carolina boaters and anglers. Read our full statement from SCBFA Chairman Russ Tomlinson below ⬇️ #SCPolitics #SCOutdoors #SCPol

For the first time in our organization’s history, SCBFA is proud to endorse Senator @ScSenGoldfinch for South Carolina Attorney General. 🇺🇸🎣 Goldfinch helped cut the nation’s highest boat taxes, fought for state-based fisheries management, funded marine fisheries, and pushed back against federal overreach impacting South Carolina boaters and anglers. Read our full statement from SCBFA Chairman Russ Tomlinson below ⬇️ #SCPolitics #SCOutdoors #SCPol

For the first time in our organization’s history, SCBFA is proud to endorse Senator @ScSenGoldfinch for South Carolina Attorney General. 🇺🇸🎣 Goldfinch helped cut the nation’s highest boat taxes, fought for state-based fisheries management, funded marine fisheries, and pushed back against federal overreach impacting South Carolina boaters and anglers. Read our full statement from SCBFA Chairman Russ Tomlinson below ⬇️ #SCPolitics #SCOutdoors #SCPol

🚨 JUST NOW: President Trump drops this banger unleashing RED SNAPPER season with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis LFG! "The Dumocrats don’t want to allow FISHING. Fighting us in Court. Bad for the environment. Amazing! President DJT"

At the eleventh hour before the start of Florida’s Red Snapper fishing season, a DC judge blocked recreational Red Snapper fishing in the South Atlantic. Our coastal communities in South Carolina know how to protect our waters better than Washington bureaucrats hundreds of miles away. I’ll continue fighting to protect our local anglers and their livelihoods from federal overreach.

On what was supposed to be the start of an exciting weekend for anglers across Florida and the Southeast, an activist Obama-appointed judge issued a last-minute injunction blocking the EFPs authorizing recreational red snapper fishing in the South Atlantic. Families, charter captains, bait shops, and anglers have spent weeks preparing for this season only for one judge in Washington, D.C. to shut it down from the bench. It’s outrageous. A federal judge sitting hundreds of miles away does not know our waters better than the men and women who fish them every day. America’s sportsmen and anglers are the original conservationists, and bureaucrats and activist courts should respect that. I stand with @MyFWC, @NOAA, and Commerce Secretary Lutnick against this politically motivated delay. We will keep fighting until this decision is overturned on appeal.

For years, anglers across the Southeast have fought to protect access to our waters while left-wing environmental groups pushed policies that threatened it, from the Biden Administration’s proposed 10-knot vessel speed rule to sweeping bottom fishing closures. South Carolina has stood in their way. Now, those same activist organizations have filed suit to stop the Trump Administration and NOAA from allowing South Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia (@ChrisCarr_Ga), and Florida (@AGJamesUthmeier) to move forward with the South Atlantic Exempted Fishing Permits (EFPs) for red snapper fishing. This is no longer just about conservation. It’s about control. South Carolina anglers should not have their livelihoods, access, and traditions dictated by liberal environmental activists pushing flawed federal policies onto Southeastern states. We believe state-led science and management produce better outcomes, and South Carolina can gather accurate, real-world data through the EFP process. We’re going to keep fighting to keep South Carolina anglers on the water.

I joined a multi-state legal brief to defend South Carolina’s fishermen, coastal economy, and recreational fishing industry from federal overreach. Washington bureaucrats do not know our waters better than the people who live and work on them every day. South Carolina should be leading the management of our red snapper and reef fisheries, not unelected officials in D.C.

Another win for America’s recreational fisherman 🐟 Last week, @POTUS and @NOAA announced the approval of Exempted Fishing Permits for Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina for the 2026 recreational Red Snapper season. This decision will allow each of the states to lead the management of recreational fishing for red snapper, ultimately leading to longer fishing seasons. This is a win for anglers in the South Atlantic region and the coastal communities that depend on a sustainable and robust ocean economy.

When I joined President @realDonaldTrump at @SportsmanBoats in 2023, he promised to roll back the misguided regulations hurting our federally managed fisheries. And today, he delivered. The South Atlantic will now see a record number of red snapper fishing days in 2026. Grateful for the leadership and insight of @BoatFishSC and @SCDNR in this hard-fought victory. 🚤🎣💪

Promises Made. Promises Kept. Back in 2023 at @SportsmanBoats, we met with President @realDonaldTrump about fixing red snapper and bottom fishing regulations. Today, that conversation is turning into action — with South Carolina set for a 60 day snapper season. Stay tuned. THANK YOU — @RussellFrySC @LindseyGrahamSC @ScSenGoldfinch @LeeHewittSC108 @henrymcmaster @AGAlanWilson and @SCDNR Director Mullikin and team! @sportfishpolicy