The Northern California Fly Fishing Board

CSPA Action Alert 3-18-09

Legislation to Eradicate Striped Bass Fisheries Introduced! We need your letters and support!
AB 1253 (Fuller) Would abort the management of the public’s striped bass fishery, open it to unlimited harvest, and send it to oblivion.

Apparently not satisfied that the litigation filed last year by agricultural interests will succeed, Assembly Woman Jean Fuller (R-Bakersfield) has introduced legislation to eradicate the fishery. She’s the front person for certain Corporate agricultural growers and irrigation districts in the Central Valley that believe it is fine to destroy a legendary public fishery to enhance their economic interests. They justify this based upon the contention that striped bass predation of ESA listed species impacts their ability to receive water from the Delta.

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assemblypersons are from any counties above Sacramento!!

Why we keep exporting our water is beyond me

Paul

ps: letters going out in tomorrows mail

Yes, the make up of the committee is really loaded against us. We will need to scramble hard to kill this in committee. In this particular instance the letters are REALLY important.

a couple of hundred fisherfolks will do the right thing and send a letter??



Paul

Paul, the odds are excellent. Our newsletters reach 1,200 people, I've posted on six different BB's. Many club conservation chairs bring these items to their club meetings to pass out. In addition, I'll be attending the Blanton Spring clinic on Saturday and passing out printed instructions to about a hundred folks.

Dan Bacher will pick it up and run it on his network as well.

However, no one should "let the other guy do it." Every letter counts.

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