Orlando, FL – July 16, 2025 – Immediately, the American Sportfishing Affiliation honored actor and philanthropist, Steve Harvey, with the inaugural ASA Influence Award in recognition of his efforts to convey new people to the game of fishing. The award was introduced in the course of the State of the Trade Breakfast on the Worldwide Conference of Allied Sportfishing Trades (ICAST) in Orlando, FL.
Greatest identified for his a long time within the leisure business, Mr. Harvey and his spouse Marjorie have launched numerous younger women and men to fishing by their basis, the Steve and Marjorie Harvey Basis. The Atlanta-based charity supplies youth outreach companies to assist domesticate the subsequent era of leaders and has contributed greater than $700,000 for scholarships.
“It’s an honor to acknowledge Mr. Harvey for his basis’s efforts to introduce younger individuals to fishing by the Steve & Marjorie Harvey Basis,” stated Glenn Hughes, President and CEO of the American Sportfishing Affiliation. “Fishing teaches vital life expertise and Steve’s work is sculpting the subsequent era of leaders each on and off the water.”
In keeping with a 2024 report, 87% of grownup anglers began fishing earlier than the age of 12. The muse creates lifelong anglers by connecting weak youth with mentors by the Steve Harvey Mentoring Program and Marjorie Harvey Ladies Who Rule the World initiatives at his Legacy Ranch property, which is dwelling to a number of lakes and trophy-sized fish.
The Influence Award was established to acknowledge leaders on the earth of leisure fishing who enact lasting change by their efforts to develop the game and share the psychological and bodily advantages of angling.
ICAST is the biggest sportfishing commerce present on the earth. Greater than 10,000 business professionals from dozens of nations make the journey to Orlando every July for the annual gathering.
The American Sportfishing Affiliation (ASA) is the sportfishing business’s commerce affiliation dedicated to representing the pursuits of the sportfishing and boating industries in addition to the whole sportfishing group. We give the business and anglers a unified voice when rising legal guidelines and insurance policies may considerably have an effect on sportfishing enterprise or sportfishing itself. ASA invests in long-term ventures to make sure the business will stay sturdy and affluent, in addition to safeguard and promote the enduring financial, conservation and social values of sportfishing in America. ASA additionally offers America’s 57.7 million anglers a voice in coverage selections that have an effect on their potential to sustainably fish on our nation’s waterways by Hold America Fishing, our nationwide angler advocacy marketing campaign. America’s anglers generate greater than $50 billion in retail gross sales with a $230.5 billion influence on the nation’s financial system creating employment for 1.1 million individuals.
