Tony Buzolich
08-05-2016, 03:07 PM
Newsletter August 2016
To: Tony Buzolich
The Water4Fish Newsletter periodically publishes alerts to the fishermen and women of Northern California where our fisheries are seriously threatened. We then ask you to take action by writing letters to political leaders and others protesting the bad action. Tens of thousands of you have responded and we have been successful in getting many policy changes. We now have a major new threat and once again we are asking for your help.
Bag and Size Limit Changes Pose Serious Threats to Stripers and Bass
As you have probably heard, the Coalition for a Sustainable Delta representing the San Joaquin Valley water diverters has petitioned the Calif. Fish and Game Commission to adopt higher bag limits and lower size limits for black bass and stripers. These changes are aimed to essentially eradicate these species from the Delta, Bay and rivers of the Central Valley. The proposal increases the bag limit on stripers from 2 fish to 6 and decreases the size limit from 18 inches to 12. It increases the black bass bag limit from 5 to 10 and decreases the size limit from 12 inches to 8. It would be devastating to these species.
This is a very serious threat to our fishing future and we must defeat it by protecting our fishing rights and fighting back with every action we can muster. The striped bass industry, the black bass industry and the salmon industry have joined together in a strong coalition to fight this bad action. This is potentially the largest coalition ever formed in Northern California to protect our fisheries. We need your help to be sure it gets the changes we need.
We have setup an automated letter that you can send to the commission to go on record as opposing the regulation change and instead supporting a positive survival and enhancement program for all three of these species. It is based on an alternate salmon plan that will reduce predation, will not eradicate anything and will not attempt to reduce the populations of the stripers or black bass. The coalition is submitting a letter to the commission asking that the bag limit and size limit proposal be rejected and the alternate plan be supported. The commission has agreed to review our proposal.
Please help defeat this bad proposal by sending an email to the commission stating your opposition to the bag limit proposal. Please also ask your friends and colleagues to do the same. To support the coalition and send your opposition email to the commission click on www.water4fish.org/savebass and fill out the transmittal form. To see the executive summary of the salmon industry projects that will protect the juvenile salmon and also protect the stripers and black bass click on Salmon Plan Summary. To see the strong statement by the Bass Industry, click on:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zCTgZI_Tgc&list=PLtpmQrPagWagPSdLGL5F28BSAV40iBPfd
Thanks for your support.
Dick Pool, President, Water4Fish - Action@water4fish.org.
Bobby Barrack, Leader, Black Bass Action Group - Bobby@Bobbybarrack.com
Jim Cox, President. Calif. Striped Bass Association -
To: Tony Buzolich
The Water4Fish Newsletter periodically publishes alerts to the fishermen and women of Northern California where our fisheries are seriously threatened. We then ask you to take action by writing letters to political leaders and others protesting the bad action. Tens of thousands of you have responded and we have been successful in getting many policy changes. We now have a major new threat and once again we are asking for your help.
Bag and Size Limit Changes Pose Serious Threats to Stripers and Bass
As you have probably heard, the Coalition for a Sustainable Delta representing the San Joaquin Valley water diverters has petitioned the Calif. Fish and Game Commission to adopt higher bag limits and lower size limits for black bass and stripers. These changes are aimed to essentially eradicate these species from the Delta, Bay and rivers of the Central Valley. The proposal increases the bag limit on stripers from 2 fish to 6 and decreases the size limit from 18 inches to 12. It increases the black bass bag limit from 5 to 10 and decreases the size limit from 12 inches to 8. It would be devastating to these species.
This is a very serious threat to our fishing future and we must defeat it by protecting our fishing rights and fighting back with every action we can muster. The striped bass industry, the black bass industry and the salmon industry have joined together in a strong coalition to fight this bad action. This is potentially the largest coalition ever formed in Northern California to protect our fisheries. We need your help to be sure it gets the changes we need.
We have setup an automated letter that you can send to the commission to go on record as opposing the regulation change and instead supporting a positive survival and enhancement program for all three of these species. It is based on an alternate salmon plan that will reduce predation, will not eradicate anything and will not attempt to reduce the populations of the stripers or black bass. The coalition is submitting a letter to the commission asking that the bag limit and size limit proposal be rejected and the alternate plan be supported. The commission has agreed to review our proposal.
Please help defeat this bad proposal by sending an email to the commission stating your opposition to the bag limit proposal. Please also ask your friends and colleagues to do the same. To support the coalition and send your opposition email to the commission click on www.water4fish.org/savebass and fill out the transmittal form. To see the executive summary of the salmon industry projects that will protect the juvenile salmon and also protect the stripers and black bass click on Salmon Plan Summary. To see the strong statement by the Bass Industry, click on:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zCTgZI_Tgc&list=PLtpmQrPagWagPSdLGL5F28BSAV40iBPfd
Thanks for your support.
Dick Pool, President, Water4Fish - Action@water4fish.org.
Bobby Barrack, Leader, Black Bass Action Group - Bobby@Bobbybarrack.com
Jim Cox, President. Calif. Striped Bass Association -