Senators & Assemblymen

[arch]

WRITE THEM NOW!!! With the state budget like it is and no early fix in site...do we really need the MLPAI? Now is the chance to write the Senators and Assembly in your district and all districts (I just did) asking them to advise the Governor to either put the MLPA process on HOLD or send it back to legislation for financial evaluation. This is the wishes of Fish & Game Commisionars Kellogg and Richards. Its time we support those two Commisionars in what is right and correct in this time when our state needs dollars for the people that protect our homes and business...Cal-Fire, Law enforcement both city, county and state wide.

Public input, even though we are just a few, sometimes makes a differance in the outcome. Write now...what do you have to lose....Oh, yea, your favorite fishing hole. Join me now and write ASAP

[NoyoJim]

I'm in, Arch.

[dunndeal]

Arch,
After witnessing your impassioned plea in Sacramento last week and reading your post here I figured the least I could do was write a letter to my representatives. I just sent the following email to Sandre Swanson and Loni Hancock:

In the late 1990's the CA electorate voted yes to implement the Marine Life Protection Act Initiative. At that time the it was estimated that the cost to the public treasury would be approximately $250,000 per year for enforcement and for the ongoing scientific monitoring that the Act required. Now that the Act is being implemented the Dept of Fish & Game has estimated that the annual cost to comply with the Act's requirements will be about $35 MILLION per year.

I urge that you exert whatever influence possible to get the MLPA shelved until such time when the necessary funds are available to comply with its provisions. To close large areas of the coast to recreational fishing without monitoring its effectiveness on the marine habitat will be condeming numerous small coastal communities that rely on sportfishermen to unreasonable economic hardship. Communities such as Bodega Bay, Ft. Bragg, Shelter Cove, Trinidad, etc all the way to the Oregon border will suffer the brunt of reduced tourism and fewer dollars flowing into their small (usually mom & pop) businesses.
Aside from the economic upheaval there is also the social cost, ocean sportfishing (with hook and line) is an American family tradition that promotes conservation and responsible stewardship of the ocean environment.
Respectfully Yours,



It's the least I could do considering the massive effort put forth by Ben, Ed, Sean and countless others to protect the rights of the sport fishermen. Thank you all.

[arch]

Thanks Jon.............anything we do or try in the last hours might have a happy ending. In my case and the Team 2XA...is all we can do is try. Who really knows what the outcome will be. I would really hate to be the one who sat back and said nothing....that is the person who will make the most noise when its over.

Thanks again Jon and Jim....hope there is more that follow my thoughts and attempts to slow this process down or bring it to a halt... Arch

[arch]

Thanks to Jay Yakomizo and Paul Pierce who were up here at the ranch early this week and met some of the local Pomo indians...finally I think they are fired up and will replace me at the August meeting...as I will be in Alaska. Please give them all the support you can...if the process still is in business. The local native americans in this area support 2XA if they have to support anything.