Group I belong to has a couple of people appointed to the Stakeholders
advisory board. We also, though out attorney, have thrown a large monkey
wrench in the MLPA workings here in Calif. There was no money for the
studies, etc. required by the MLPA's. A couple of enviro extremists stepped
up with money, and they only give money as the project moves along and seems
to be in their favor. We have threatened to sue, as this is the first case
of direct regulation via purchase in the states history.
Bill

"Shortwave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On Fri, 03 Jun 2005 22:00:36 GMT, "Bill McKee"
wrote:

No the PFMC is a Federal appointed board.

Thanks.

We had an incident up here last year with Ocean Conservancy in which
they set up an official sounding "board" at URI ostensibly to collect
"public comments" on MPAs and it turned out that the board was a
fishing (no pun intended) expedition to find out what the objections
were and custom tailor their extreme agenda with regard to MPAs.

As a representative of a state club, myself and several others caught
on real fast and left the meeting along with a bunch of commercial
types who showed up. We all met outside the building and came to the
same conclusion - re above.

It would appear that this is legit although if the Environmental
Defense Fund is involved, you can be sure it's not going to do the
recreational fishery any good.

Later,

Tom