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Can you help explain what "specified activities permitted by other agencies" means?
Can you help explain what "specified activities permitted by other agencies" means?
please don't be offended by this or take it the wrong way. only from observation by intimate contact with our inshore fisheries along southern calif, have i come to a surprising realization that always is disregarded when legislation is being made. number one, does anyone remember 15 yrs leading up to the 1997 el nino and how our waters were called "dead sea?" all of a sudden the fish counts and record sizes of all species practically grew over one season to epic proportions and remained even resident species not known to stay in cooler waters, without the help of any bay keeping projects. they flourished without man's help. white sea bass were practically non existant. albacore migrations were far away and far in between.then el nino's nutrient rich waters made ground dwelling, migratory ground dwellers and palagics this place. to create the closures only makes the fishable areas hit with extreme pressures, and it creates illegal fishing. is the dfg gonna lower license fees? i know i wont be buying licenses for no fishing areas. then the funding for dfg will have to come by way of other means, after alot of quit buying them also. it definately seems to be going in the wrong direction, much like the rest of the country's and california's failing solutions to recover anything.
The Fish & Game Commission has literally just now (at 3:15PM) passed the South Coast MPAs. They adopted the BRTF's IPA (Integrated Preferred Alternative) with some modifications.
It will still be a while until these take effect, but now it's on to the next step.
- Ken
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Ken Kurtis
Member - SIG (Statewide Interests Group)
MLPAI (Marine Life Protection Act Initiative)
Do you have any idea when this will take effect?