VOLUNTEERS NEEDED FOR THE ECOTRUST SOUTH COAST MLPA SURVEY - Kayak Fishing Adventures on Big Water’s Edge

PaddleHP · 06-27-2008, 11:36 AM

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.

Useful Idiot · 06-27-2008, 12:35 PM

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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.

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.

PAL · 07-14-2008, 04:32 PM

FYI - the first invitations to fill out the Ecotrust Survey are going out.
I had the opportunity to beta test the survey just prior to the 4th of July. It will take most of us a substantial amount of time to complete. Please budget at least an hour. Depending on how many fisheries you participate in and your fishing modes (kayak, shore, sportboat, freediving, private boat), carefully spending your sets of 100 pennies could take half a day or more.

Please stick with it. If anyone here has problems, plus post up and get help from someone who has made it through the survey process. The results will be critical toward protecting the crown jewels of ocean kayak fishing.

Keep in mind the bays do not face the same likelihood of closure as our ocean fisheries, and good luck.

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06-27-2008, 11:36 AM	#1
PaddleHP Scampi Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Spring Valley Posts: 26	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.

07-14-2008, 04:32 PM	#3
PAL Senior Member Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 754	FYI - the first invitations to fill out the Ecotrust Survey are going out. I had the opportunity to beta test the survey just prior to the 4th of July. It will take most of us a substantial amount of time to complete. Please budget at least an hour. Depending on how many fisheries you participate in and your fishing modes (kayak, shore, sportboat, freediving, private boat), carefully spending your sets of 100 pennies could take half a day or more. Please stick with it. If anyone here has problems, plus post up and get help from someone who has made it through the survey process. The results will be critical toward protecting the crown jewels of ocean kayak fishing. Keep in mind the bays do not face the same likelihood of closure as our ocean fisheries, and good luck.