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Jim Matthews, ONS
4/2/03
MARINE RESERVES:
Regulations restricting sport fishing in vast areas around the Channel Islands will take affect next Wednesday (April 9) in spite of an effort by sportfishing groups to get a restraining order to halt the implementation of closures as part of the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary.
Ventura County Superior court judge Steven Hintz provided a written ruling in turning down the sportfishing requests by saying that "the likelihood that plaintiffs will ultimately prevail in the litigation is not provided to be likely; and the interim harm to plaintiffs compared to the interim harm to the interests of the state is not proved to be comparably greater."
Sportfishermen are outraged by the "science" used to create the preserves and the process by which they were adopted.
"The newly created marine reserves serve no useful purposes other than making the reputation of the preservationists that ramrodded them through a thoroughly corrupt political system," said John Massie, a retired Department of Fish and Game biologist, and avid marine angler from Ramona. "There is not a shred of hard evidence that they will improve fisheries of any sort, yet they were established in the face of complaints from conservationists at all of [the Fish and Game Commission] meetings. They need to be repealed or struck down by court action. They are just one more strike from the government that is supposed to be working for us instead of against us. I'm selling my boat and getting out of this whole stinking mess." DFG wardens will being patrolling these areas next Wednesday and will cite anglers in violation of the new rules. For detailed information on the detailed regulations and maps of the newly-formed Marine Preserve Areas, anglers can go to the DFG's website at http://www.dfg.ca.gov/channel_islands/index.html.
The Channel Islands network is composed of 10 marina reserves, where no fishing is permitted, and two conservation areas, where some forms of fishing may be restricted.
4/2/03
MARINE RESERVES:
Regulations restricting sport fishing in vast areas around the Channel Islands will take affect next Wednesday (April 9) in spite of an effort by sportfishing groups to get a restraining order to halt the implementation of closures as part of the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary.
Ventura County Superior court judge Steven Hintz provided a written ruling in turning down the sportfishing requests by saying that "the likelihood that plaintiffs will ultimately prevail in the litigation is not provided to be likely; and the interim harm to plaintiffs compared to the interim harm to the interests of the state is not proved to be comparably greater."
Sportfishermen are outraged by the "science" used to create the preserves and the process by which they were adopted.
"The newly created marine reserves serve no useful purposes other than making the reputation of the preservationists that ramrodded them through a thoroughly corrupt political system," said John Massie, a retired Department of Fish and Game biologist, and avid marine angler from Ramona. "There is not a shred of hard evidence that they will improve fisheries of any sort, yet they were established in the face of complaints from conservationists at all of [the Fish and Game Commission] meetings. They need to be repealed or struck down by court action. They are just one more strike from the government that is supposed to be working for us instead of against us. I'm selling my boat and getting out of this whole stinking mess." DFG wardens will being patrolling these areas next Wednesday and will cite anglers in violation of the new rules. For detailed information on the detailed regulations and maps of the newly-formed Marine Preserve Areas, anglers can go to the DFG's website at http://www.dfg.ca.gov/channel_islands/index.html.
The Channel Islands network is composed of 10 marina reserves, where no fishing is permitted, and two conservation areas, where some forms of fishing may be restricted.
