Our discussions with Feinstein’s WDC staffer Ken Rooney may bring some positive results, but we have made little headway due primarily to National Marine Fishery Service advice to him on predation. Dave Ostrach, Striper Mike and I believed we need to advise the sport fishing business and angling public now that the Senator’s bill will kill what little is left of the estuary’s fisheries.
Dave Studeman has been working with the American Sportfishing Association that also opposes the bill and is actively with Congress on our behalf and that of Golden Gate Salmon Assoc. He has provided ASA with our letter seeking amendments to S.2533. Senator Feinstein recently had a meeting with ASA but was not willing to amend her bill. The agreement she’s made with California’s Corporate Ag and their consultants led to language in S.2533 that will be terminal to the fisheries of the estuary and its tributaries while providing more of the estuary’s water to grow crops for export to other countries.
We need to all pull together to rally our friends, anglers, sport fishing businesses, local media, and radio - TV media to have the Senator make the two amendments we’ve requested. We are also supporting the Golden Gate Salmon Association's efforts to stop the bill since as now written it will be terminal for the salmon runs of the Central Valley tributaries to the Delta. A number of Democratic members in the House of Representatives have engaged to stop the bill, but they are outnumbered by the House Republicans who are supporting the bill recently introduced by Congressman Garamendi that has the same language of Feinstein’s S.2533.
When I spoke with Congressman Garamendi several weeks ago he said he would try to get out amendments made to S.2533. We are now doubling back to see if the Congressman said one thing and did another, or if he intends to make the amendment’s in the House to the bill he is carrying.
The the situation is critical. Should the bill pass as currently written, it will be open season on the non-native fish in the Delta and it tributaries. All of us need to engage our members of Congress asking for their opposition to the bills in the House and Senate. What we also need to accomplish is to find and contact the businesses benefit from the money anglers spend on Striped Bass, Largemouth and Smallmouth Bass, catfish and panfish. A very conservative estimate on the impact this legislation will have on these businesses is some $500 million annually. Letters and emails are needed asking for the amendments proposed by the Allied Fishing Groups to S.2533. Every letter and email counts!
Also attached below, you should find: (1) SF/AFG Media Release on S.2533. Posted it! Copy and send it to friends and interested parties urging them to contact Senator Feinstein’s WDC office and request that she amend the bill as requested by the Allied Fishing Groups and encourage them to go to our website WWW.AlliedFishingGroups.com<http://www.alliedfishinggroups. com/> for more information. (2) A copy of the letter we sent to the Senator requesting amendments necessary to save the estuary’s non-native fisheries, for your use and distribution. (3) For those who would like to send email to Feinstein, the best way to do this is to long onto to her web site at http://www.feinstein.senate. gov/public/index.cfm/contact. You will find a form on this site to be used for emailing the Senator. Make sure that we using the form to contact all of her district offices and her WDC office by checking the appropriate boxes.
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