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Email campaign to support Map 2 in MLPA process needs your help! |
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Written by Holy Mackerel
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Friday, October 30, 2009 |
The short of it...
Anti-Fishing groups have sent thousands of emails to the BRTF for map 3. We need to match them.
*****Time is limited, BRTF meets on 11/10/09 to decide our fate.
Please email
SUBJECT LINE: "South Coast comment for BRTF."
Along with MLPAComments@resources.ca.gov
Please CC: angler4prop2@gmail.com
Tell them you support Map 2.
PLEASE USE your own words, but if at least send something like the sample below.
This is a simple email I put together for friends, co-workers, family.
To: MLPAComments@resources.ca.gov
Subject: South Coast comment for BRTF
Cc: angler4prop2@gmail.com
Dear Members of the Blue Ribbon Task Force,
I am writing in support of Map 2. I believe it has the appropriate
balance of conservation and consumption, and it meets all of the
science guidelines. The other proposals fall short of SAT guidelines
(deep water rock and pinnacles at Del Mar) yet have a big impact on San
Diego’s heritage of recreational fishing and it’s local fishing related
economy. Map 2 has the most cross interest support, and the buy-in of
consumptive fishermen. San Diego’s fishing community has a history of
actively supporting conservation issues and enthusiastically following
DFG regulations to manage the species. La Jolla is especially important
to kayak anglers with it’s protected launch, and kayak anglers are
environmentally friendly using human powered vessels. Please support
Map 2 for the Southern California MLPA process.
Thank you,
Your Name
Address
Phone Number
The long of it! read below!
General letter targets will be announced shortly.
1. Support Prop 2 for San Diego, where it meets all science guidelines
and lessens economic impact. Captures the rare deep water rock and
pinnacles at Del Mar. Other proposals fall short of SAT guidelines
because they do not.
2. If the task force closes south La Jolla, enlarges the existing
reserve and grows the SMCA proposed for the pier all the way up to
Torrey Pines (BOOKENDS), there will be many negative impacts:
- Compaction will cause a threat to public safety. We'll have to share
a tiny area with sportboats, private boats, commercial boats, free
divers and kayakers. People will get hurt, most likely a free diver or
kayaker.
- Small changes make big differences for kayak anglers. The paddle out
from the Shores would go from 1/2 a mile to roughly 2/3 and take out
roughly 20% of the east-west extent of the north kelp line. Novices
would be pushed out from the shelter of Pt La Jolla out to more open
water.
- The existing Scripps MPA boundaries are well known. The new bouys are
well maintained and not prone to drifting. Boundary signs with maps are
numerous.
- The bait-only SMCA proposed for the pier and north is not needed to
meet science guidelines. The habitats that would be protected are
represented elsewhere in the study region. It would have a big impact
on the local surf-casting community, who would have virtually no
fishable sandy beaches the length of La Jolla.
More local info!
Guys and gals,
November 10 is when the BRTF will convene to make their final decision
and finish up the work they deferred from their Oct. 21-23 meeting.
Between now and Nov. 5th, letters and faxes need to be sent.
We need to put down the hammer on our letter writing and faxing.
The other side brags that there are thousands of emails supporting
Proposal 3, and only a handful supporting proposal 1 and 2. I have a
hard time believing that there are more Prop 3 supporters than Prop 2
supporters, but the email process is out of our view.
We can only verify what we see.
We need to counter this because that's not representative of the public
and unless the BRTF recognizes this, we are screwed by the
financially-powerful private interests.
I don't have trust (call me cynical) that ALL our pro-group 2 emails
will be accurately counted. So I want to independently verify the
number of emails that we sent to the BRTF, just to make sure the
process of collecting those emails is forwarding them all to the BRTF.
Call me skeptical but there is NO effing way, looking at the previous
meeting statistics, that the pro-Group 3 people can have more people
than we do. No effing way looking at the huge majority of black shirts
in each meeting.
Some thing is wrong and it's skewing the BRTF's perception of public
support. May be nothing is wrong but I'm not trusting the numbers. And
I just want to make sure all our emails are accounted for.
1) We have established an email box for SDFISHERS to email your letter to angler4prop2@gmail.com IN ADDITION (PARALLEL--CC us) to your emailing it to MLPAComments@resources.ca.gov.
This will be the collection point and verification of the number of
emails spearos have sent. We'll do the same thing for other
communities.
Please email to both MLPAComments@resources.ca.gov and angler4prop2@gmail.com, Subject line "South Coast comment for BRTF."
I will run a running tally of the numbers, compare it with the official
numbers they claim they receive, and make sure that no funny stuff goes
on, and make sure that consumptive emails for Prop 2 are not
undercounted. But unless you also send the email to our independent
verification email box (angler4prop2@gmail.com), we can't argue when we
feel the numbers are not right.
Here are the possible arguments when you guys do your letters.
For San Diego (the area I know):
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1. Support Prop 2 for San Diego, where it meets all science guidelines
and lessens economic impact. Captures the rare deep water rock and
pinnacles at Del Mar. Other proposals fall short of SAT guidelines
because they do not.
2. Argue strenuously against the closure of South La Jolla. If the task
force closes south La Jolla, enlarges the existing reserve and grows
the SMCA proposed for the pier all the way up to Torrey Pines
(BOOKENDS), there will be many negative impacts:
- Compaction will cause a huge threat to public safety. We'll have to
share a tiny area with sportboats, private boats, commercial boats,
free divers and kayakers. People will get hurt, most likely a free
diver or kayaker.
- South La Jolla is critically important to local commercial lobster
and urchin and to the sportboat landings in Mission Bay. Remember, in
years the current runs predominately uphill, south La Jolla grows in
importance to us too. Besides, north Pt Loma is more suitable as it
offers the most persistent kelp forest in Southern California. When
there's no kelp in LJ, its still hanging on at north Pt Loma. The
economic and access hits are much lighter.
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