Marine Life Protection Act hearing in Sacramento Wed. Aug. 2

[Chuck Tribolet]

The first Fish and Game Commision hearing on the Marine Life Protection Act
implementation will be held Wed. Aug. 2 in Sacramento. There will be another meeting in
Monterey on Tuesday Aug. 15, but public testimony will only be taken in Sacramento.
Whatever your views, Aug. 2 is your opportunity to make your views known. Details
on the meetings are at http://www.dfg.ca.gov/mrd/mlpa/meetings.html

Please attend, especially if you live in the Sacramento area.

 

[Jim Ernst]

The first Fish and Game Commision hearing on the Marine Life Protection Act
implementation will be held Wed. Aug. 2 in Sacramento. There will be another meeting in
Monterey on Tuesday Aug. 15, but public testimony will only be taken in Sacramento.
Whatever your views, Aug. 2 is your opportunity to make your views known. Details
on the meetings are at http://www.dfg.ca.gov/mrd/mlpa/meetings.html

Please attend, especially if you live in the Sacramento area.

chuck, can you tell me more on this as i just heared about it and am not sure what all is intailed here, i did look at the web you posted, can you give me anymore details on this please!!!!!! i will take the 2nd off and be there!!!!!! i would like to know as much as i can prior to showing up!!! thanks again!!

 

[Chuck Tribolet]

In 1999, the legislature passed the Marine Life Protection Act that mandated the
establishment of new Marine Protected Areas based on best available science. After
a couple of false starts, the Fish and Game Commision established a "blue ribbon taskforce"
which in turn established a council of stakeholders. The various stakeholder groups
included consumptive divers and non-consumptive divers. The geography to be covered
was Pigeon Pt. (North of Santa Cruz) to Pt. Conception (way south). Over a year of
wrangling produced
three proposals that had legs: 1 (comsumptive's proposal), 2R (conservationist's
proposal) and 3R (middle of the road). The five-member BRT adopted 3R by a vote of 3 to
2. The other two votes were for 2R. No votes for 1.

Based on this information, the department of fish and game took 3R, and reduced it in the
direction of 1, and sent this to the Fish and Game Commission (understand that
DFG is enforcement and science, the commision makes the rules). The commision
will start discussing the proposals on Wed in Sacramento.

So what did DFG change:
The changed the area from the Monterey Breakwater to the Charthouse restaurant
from a Reserve (NO take) to a Marine Conservation Area (receational fishing allowed),
the area from about Amentos around to Pt. Joe from a Reserve to an SMCA, and greatly
shrank the Reserve around the Pinnacles.

Now our fight is to get those areas restored.

Details of proposals 1, 2R, and 3R are at the bottom of
http://www.dfg.ca.gov/mrd/mlpa/transmittaldocs.html
Details of proposal P are at
http://www.dfg.ca.gov/mrd/mlpa/preferred.html

 

[Bob3]

Anybody coming to town, give me a yell; we can hit an all you can eat Chinese Sushi Mongolian BBQ joint.