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MONTEREY

The
Richmond Hunting Club is a not for
profit sportsmen organization. The club has four clubhouses
and over 18,000 acres of some of the finest upland game and
waterfowl property in the Princeton / Colusa /
Williams triangle. Annual family memberships start at just $500. per season. For more
information about the "RHC" please contact us at
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July 01, 2009
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Rockfish Limits
Supporting our
Fisheries
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On
Wednesday
7-1
Todd
Arcaleo
of
Chris's
Landing
reported
outstanding
bottomfishing
at Point
Sur with
big
sacks of
vermilion,
yellow
and
school
rockfish
to go
with 20
lings on
the
boat.
Local
reefs
are
producing
limits,
but the
quality
is much
smaller.
They are
running
to Point
Sur on
Wednesdays,
Fridays,
Saturdays
and
Sunday
or
anytime
there
are 20
anglers
on
board.
Striper
schools
have
reconvened
along
the
beaches
with
surf
anglers
scattered
from Sea
Cliff in
Santa
Cruz
County
to the
mouth of
the
Salinas
River.
Ly Tu
said an
8-pounder
was
taken
Monday
morning
on sand
crabs at
Sea
Cliff.
We are
seeing
flat,
foggy
cool
weather
along
the
coast.
Around
the Bays
there is
a
transition
zone of
breeze
off the
fog and
temps in
the 70s
and 80s
and
inland
the
winds
are
light
and the
temps
are
pushing
into the
90s. The
coastal
weather
buoys
are
reporting
light
winds
under 5
knots
over a 3
to 4
foot
swell.
The
forecast
calls
for
nearly
dead
calm
weather
through
Monday
with
light
winds
and fog
coast
side. If
you are
looking
to get
your
kids out
and not
risk
seasickness
this is
your
window
of
opportunity
and a
great
time to
get out
for some
white
meat.
We
here at USAFishing
strongly support fishery
conservation,
unfortunately we can't
say the same of most
California anglers. We
are at a crossroads and
unless anglers support
conservation groups
(that our currently
waging a losing battle
against the multi-
million $ lobby) we will
lose every key fishery
that is connected to the
delta. If you think that
these "water issues"
won't affect your
favorite fishery you are
likely wrong. The
effects will be
widespread and include
the continued closure of
California and Oregon
saltwater salmon
fisheries.
The state water projects
are being consolidated
and the governor is
looking to toss
the only Bay-Delta
protections we have and
ship water from Shasta
and Oroville directly to
LA swimming pools and
subsidized cotton
farmers in Westland's.
If these water projects
go through you can kiss
goodbye (as in forever)
our salmon, and our
striper and sturgeon
fisheries will continue
to decline. We don't
have an ocean salmon
season this year or last
because of too much
water being pumped from
the delta. If these
water projects get
passed we will have none
in the future. At no
time in the past has it
been so critical that
our readers understand
these issues and support
the work that the
California Sportfishing
Protection Alliance
is doing.
Bottom line..... It's
time to get off your ass
and support the CSPA or
in a few short years
there will be NO salmon,
striper and sturgeon
fisheries and they won't
ever recover. No group
has done more over the
past two decades to
protect fisheries than
CSPA. In the past two
months USAFishing
readers have raised
nearly $10,000 for the
CSPA but much much more
is needed. Please visit
their website and learn
more about all the great
work they are doing.
Become part of the
solution and support the
California Sportfishing
Protection Alliance
today!
Mike Aughney
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CSPA Slams Board,
Governor for Water
Project Consolidation
by Dan Bacher
Bill Jennings, chairman
of the California
Sportfishing Protection
Alliance, on Tuesday
castigated the State
Water Resources Control
Board for its draft
ruling allowing the
consolidation of the
federal Central Valley
Water Project (CVP) and
State Water Project (SWP)
place of use
permits. This petition
will allow for the first
time water from Shasta
to go to LA and water
from Oroville to go to
the Westland's Waters
District. Under the
guise of an emergency
drought proclamation by
the Governor, the
California Environment
Water Quality Act (CEQA)
and State Board Decision
1641, the only Bay-Delta
protections we have,
have been tossed into
the garbage, according
to Jennings.
Jennings said Governor
Arnold Schwarzenegger's
drought proclamation is
based on "bogus claims."
Had the Board allowed
the proclamation to be
introduced as evidence,
"we would have rebutted
its bogus claims lie by
lie," said Jennings.
"This order is a
backdoor attack upon 150
years of water law and
precedent," stated
Jennings. "It is an
attack upon the public
trust. It threatens to
undermine faith in
public institutions and,
indeed, in government
itself." "Never before
have we had to waive
CEQA and Water Quality
Control Plans or turn
California's permit
system upside down
through a truncated
hearing that violates
the most basic due
process rights," he
said.
As Jennings was
testifying in defense of
the Delta and
California's imperiled
fish populations,
Schwarzenegger was in
Washington, D.C. playing
the incongruous role of
the "Green Governor."
Schwarzenegger used the
Obama administration's
announcement of an
agreement between the
federal government,
automakers, and the 14
states led by California
in their fight to
regulate greenhouse gas
emissions from vehicles
to tout his
"environmental" record.
“California’s relentless
push for greenhouse gas
reductions from
automobiles is paying
off not just for our
state, but for all
Americans, for our
environment, for
automakers and our
economy," said
Schwarzenegger. "This
historic agreement to
reduce greenhouse gases
will mean cleaner air
for our children and
grandchildren, greater
economic security as we
rely less on foreign
oil, and a chance at
renewal for our auto
industry. Today, we’re
seeing what happens when
California leads on
energy and the
environment and doesn’t
waiver, doesn’t get
bogged down, doesn’t let
obstacles get in the
way.”
However, when Governor
Arnold Schwarzenegger
finally leaves office,
he will actually leave
as his "green" legacy
collapsing fisheries and
environmental
devastation
unprecedented in
California and U.S.
history. While the
mainstream media and
many corporate-funded
"environmental" groups
praise him for his
"leadership" on "green
energy," Schwarzenegger
has presided over the
destruction of Central
Valley Chinook salmon,
longfin smelt, green
sturgeon, striped bass
and other fish
populations.
"Environmentalism,"
Schwarzenegger-style, is
nothing other than a
particularly toxic and
destructive form of
corporate greenwashing.
While he engages in
photo opportunities with
President Obama,
Senators,
Representatives and
other politicians, his
administration's
"leadership" is waging
an unprecedented war
against California's
fish populations and
aquatic ecosystems.
The same Governor who
has repeatedly lied
about the California
"drought" is
relentlessly campaigning
for a peripheral canal
and more dams, a
dangerous project that
is expected to worsen
the already imperiled
state of Central Valley
salmon and Delta fish
populations. Although
some scientists and the
Nature Conservancy have
gone on record in
support of the
peripheral canal because
it would supposedly
accomplish "co-equal
goals" of ecosystem
restoration and water
supply, I have two
questions to ask canal
proponents.
First, can anybody show
me one single example in
U.S. history where the
construction of a water
supply canal has led to
less water being taken
out of a river system?
Second, can anybody
point to one example of
where a massive canal
project like the
peripheral canal has led
to ecosystem
restoration, rather than
ecosystem destruction?
For more information
about the California
Sportfishing Protection
Alliance, go to
California Sportfishing
Protection Alliance
Here is Jennings' superb
testimony before the
State Water Resources
Control Board in
Sacramento on Tuesday,
May 19:
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