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 Posted - Apr 23 2009 : 23:03:20
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Time to white a few emails - this is insane! More of the water barrons - taking a different approach to side-stepping the damage done by excessife water exports. I didn't post the whole article, just the begining and end, but it can be found at restore the delta.org site.
Here it is...
Take Action to Help Protect Delta Fisheries
California Assembly Member Jean Fuller (R- Bakersfield) has introduced a bill (AB1253) that seeks to remove game fish status for Striped Bass. Passage of the bill would allow unlimited, indiscriminate harvest of striped bass and prohibit regulation of striped bass by the California Department of Fish and Game.
Representative Fuller asserts that by allowing for the over fishing of Striped Bass, Delta Smelt and Chinook Salmon would be protected from predation by Striped Bass in the Delta. This assertion, however, ignores the ecological history of the Delta. Moreover, Assembly Member Fuller has made public comments that water contractors, who receive subsidized water from the Delta, helped to draft the proposed legislation language. From the view of Restore the Delta supporters and staff, this bill is another attempt to destroy Delta fisheries, under the guise of protecting other fish species, in order to re-engineer the Delta for the benefit of water exporters.
Biological records indicate that Striped Bass were introduced in the late 1800s to the Delta. And until the later portion of the 1900s, when record amounts of water were pumped out of the Delta, Delta Smelt, Winter-Run Chinook Salmon, Spring-Run Chinook Salmon, and Striped Bass coexisted in abundant numbers. Predation between species of fish has always occurred, but even in the present, predation is not an attributable threat to Delta Smelt or Chinook Salmon. (Sources: Dr. Mark Rockwell, Federation of Fly Fishers; Doug Lovell, Streamborn).
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So, here's what you can do to stop this bill.
Visit these two websites and register your opposition to AB1253. Click here for Save our Stripers. Click here for Save Delta Fish.
Send a letter to Assembly Member Jared Huffan, Chairman of the Assembly Committee on Water, Parks, and Wildlife. He is chairing a Water, Parks, and Wildlife Committee meeting on Tuesday, April 28, 2009. Let him know of your opposition to AB1253. If you are pressed for time, you can call his Sacramento Office at 916-319-2006 to say why AB1253 is bad for Delta fisheries and Delta communities.
Honorable Jared Huffman, Chairman; Assembly Committee on Water, Parks and Wildlife; 1020 N Street, Suite 160; Sacramento CA 95814; Fax:916-319- 2106
Or you can attend the hearing and be prepared to make a public comment on 4/28/09. Restore the Delta will send out the hearing time and location as soon as it is made available.
Thanks Delta Lovers!
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Posted - Apr 26 2009 : 18:19:22
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