 Southern California Fishing Closures
Enviromentalist pushing for Closures of the best fishing spots in Southern California.
NO TAKE ZONES
Message from our Stake Holder Dr Terry Maas.
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Stakeholder Log Entry March 7, 2009
Well the first round of MPA array shapes have been submitted for review. There were 3 external proposal and 6 draft array proposals from the 3 working groups of the RSG. They can be summed up as follows:
1. External Proposal A, submitted by the FIC/FIN. This was submitted with input from all fishing interests (Divers too).
2. External Proposal B, submitted by United Anglers
3. External Proposal C, submitted by Santa Barbara Channelkeeper and Santa Monica Baykeeper
The working groups of the SCRSG submitted two arrays each. They can be summed up as one large and one small. For us specifically one has less impact, the other more. We are going to be impacted by these closures I think we all know that, Terry and I are still hopeful that the impact will be workable.
The evaluations of the proposals include both; SAT guidelines (size and spacing, habitat replication, etc) and economic impacts (both by individual MPA and total array). There will be a % valuation placed on sport uses and a $$ amount placed on commercial. We are waiting for the evaluations to come back before spending too much time on validating why we chose each area for the arrays we supported. So please stay tuned the large lady has not sung yet.
Several key issues have had some more light shed on them regarding support from you, our constituents;
1. Showing up for meetings in numbers
a. I still believe showing up for meetings is helpful. Be professional, be concise, have comments typed up to turn in for public record
2. Sending letters to congressional members, Governor, DFG, BRTF, SIG
The letter campaign is underway; follow the thread on spearboard to find the letter or issue you can write about.
If any of you need help to get motivated, just look at proposal “C” or any of the large reserve concept proposals from the working groups.
Last edited by Bananaman; 03-10-2009 at 01:35 AM.
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