Mike McKenzie
02-09-2008, 10:19 AM
Nearly all informed anglers know by now that it is very unlikely that we will
see a Central Coast or Central Valley salmon season this year or next. There
is nothing we can do to change the past. There is however something YOU can do
the change the future and ensure a recovery of our salmon fisheries by 2010
or 2011.
We are finally being heard in Sacramento and we need to keep the letters
coming to keep the political pressure on. I encourage all readers of this site to
take just 5 minutes of their time and log on to water4fish.org and sign the
petition. Thanks to their great software it only takes a minute to type in your
name and address and generate 8 letters that will be sent to the Governor and
legislators in Sacramento.
Ask your family, friends, coworkers and neighbors to also support this cause
or you can kiss our salmon fisheries good-bye, forever. There are several key
hearings and meetings coming up involving endangered smelt, water diversion,
dams and pumping and this is the best tool for us to be heard. I do believe
that the tide is starting to turn and while it will take a few years for our
salmon fisheries to recover I do believe they will.
In just the past two months USAFishing readers have helped to double the
total number of letters sent through http://www.water4fish.org I want to express
my thanks to all who have signed the petition and let you know that it is
making a difference. What is needed RIGHT NOW is a doubling of the 35,000 letters
received in the past six months in the next two weeks? I realize I sound like a
preacher to his flock but all I am asking for, is for you to spend the same
amount of time you have spent reading these four paragraphs to log onto
water4fish.org and sign the petition. It's that easy and we are being heard!!!
In other news we are still working on our application to become a fisheries
enhancement nonprofit group. We are working with several other well recognized
organizations in that field and are making head way but the process is a bit
more complicated than we thought. We hope to have our ducks and fish lined up
by spring. We have received many emails inquiring about how to support what we
are doing but we cannot legally solicit or accept any donations at this time.
We want to thank everyone for their support but please give us a few more
weeks to get everything lined up.
Together we are making a difference. But we can't do this without YOU to
carry the message to Sacramento that we aren't going to accept the huge decline in
our fisheries to support subsidized corporate farms any longer. Please share
or post this story wherever you wish.
Mike Aughney
USAFishing.com
see a Central Coast or Central Valley salmon season this year or next. There
is nothing we can do to change the past. There is however something YOU can do
the change the future and ensure a recovery of our salmon fisheries by 2010
or 2011.
We are finally being heard in Sacramento and we need to keep the letters
coming to keep the political pressure on. I encourage all readers of this site to
take just 5 minutes of their time and log on to water4fish.org and sign the
petition. Thanks to their great software it only takes a minute to type in your
name and address and generate 8 letters that will be sent to the Governor and
legislators in Sacramento.
Ask your family, friends, coworkers and neighbors to also support this cause
or you can kiss our salmon fisheries good-bye, forever. There are several key
hearings and meetings coming up involving endangered smelt, water diversion,
dams and pumping and this is the best tool for us to be heard. I do believe
that the tide is starting to turn and while it will take a few years for our
salmon fisheries to recover I do believe they will.
In just the past two months USAFishing readers have helped to double the
total number of letters sent through http://www.water4fish.org I want to express
my thanks to all who have signed the petition and let you know that it is
making a difference. What is needed RIGHT NOW is a doubling of the 35,000 letters
received in the past six months in the next two weeks? I realize I sound like a
preacher to his flock but all I am asking for, is for you to spend the same
amount of time you have spent reading these four paragraphs to log onto
water4fish.org and sign the petition. It's that easy and we are being heard!!!
In other news we are still working on our application to become a fisheries
enhancement nonprofit group. We are working with several other well recognized
organizations in that field and are making head way but the process is a bit
more complicated than we thought. We hope to have our ducks and fish lined up
by spring. We have received many emails inquiring about how to support what we
are doing but we cannot legally solicit or accept any donations at this time.
We want to thank everyone for their support but please give us a few more
weeks to get everything lined up.
Together we are making a difference. But we can't do this without YOU to
carry the message to Sacramento that we aren't going to accept the huge decline in
our fisheries to support subsidized corporate farms any longer. Please share
or post this story wherever you wish.
Mike Aughney
USAFishing.com