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Originally Posted by PaddleHP
I spoke to a spear fisherman just last week at LJ Shores, and he said he had been to many of the public MLPA meetings. He essentially said that the MLPA was going to let us vote on taking an absurd amount of great fishing waters or taking even more great fishing waters. It's not looking good.
Eitherway I signed up for the survey. Let's see what they'll ask us.
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The way the process works is the regional stakeholder group (which we are currently trying to get PAL appointed to) will come up with a few different maps which are forwarded to a DFG committee which will take public input hearings and eventually vote on the final map which will be forwarded to another committee for final approval.
The stakeholder group is comprised of enviro's, fishermen, business owners etc. There will likely be 4 or 5 maps that come out of the process with one extreme having massive closures and the other hardly any. Both will more than likely be thrown out by the committee with something in the middle being the final result.
The only input we have on the process is through our representative on the stakeholder group. If we don't have a kayak fishing rep on that board, our voices will likely not be heard. At no point will there be a public vote on which map is selected like the freediver told you on the beach.