NOW is the time for you to get involved in the MLPA. As most of you know, several hundreds of hours at my own expense to fight for your rights. Here is not what I want you to do, but what you MUST do. I have not asked for your help on this until now, but now is the time, and without your support all the work to get to this point will be in vain. We must get this message out to your community of friends, and other web sites and clubs.

Please go to the link and fill it out or you can use something you have written or the prepared letter. This will only take a minute so please give us and future generations 30 seconds of your time.

http://capwiz.com/keepamericafishing/issues/alert/?alertid=11225626
I strongly Recommend that you take the time to also join with this organization. You know in the past I have been very conservative with my support of organizations.
I RECOMMEND JOINING THIS:
http://www.keepamericafishing.org/california.asp

Next week, the Governor's Blue Ribbon Task Force will be recommending a network of Marine Protected Areas for the North Central Coast. We need your help to make sure coastal recreators' voices are heard in support of local fisheries populations, most specifically groundfish (rockfish) and roundfish (lingcod, cabezone, greenling), the very species that will benefit the most from MPAs.
As you may know, California is developing a statewide network of marine protected areas to protect special places along our coast and help species recover. The process was successfully completed on the central coast last year. Now three proposals developed by local stakeholders are being considered for the North Central Coast, which extends from San Mateo County to Mendocino County. The Golden Gate Fisherman's Association as well as the Coast Side Fishing Club as well as myself support Proposal 2-XA as designed to enhance local fisheries populations, most specifically groundfish (rockfish) and roundfish (lingcod, cabezone, greenling), the very species that will benefit the most from MPAs. It is also best for socio-economic impacts on our costal community which has been devastated by the salmon closures and the Rockfish Conservation areas.

The meeting on April 22 begins at 9:30.

Link is here: http://www.dfg.ca.gov/mlpa/publiccomments.asp
Governor Schwarzenneger:http://gov.ca.gov/interact
ASA Form Letter: Keep America Fishing

Email address is: MLPAComments@resources.ca.gov , Mike.Chrisman@resources.ca.gov

http://www.water4fish.org/sign-petition/
Send a different letter everyday so they don't classify them as form letters. Proposal 2-XA provides HIGHER protection than Proposals 1/3 & 4 without the excessive restrictions of the other proposals.

The decision meeting will be taking place on April 22-23 in San Rafael, with public comment taking place on the afternoon of April 22 (Earth Day) after agenda item #6. If you can attend, either for the whole day or just a few hours, it will have a big impact. If you only have a small window of time, consider keeping posted on the meeting's progress via the live online webcast www.cal-span.org/Broadcast/MLPA.asx . If you would like to submit written comment before, or in lieu of, the meeting, check out our online action alert below.

Meeting location:
Embassy Suites Hotel
101 McInnis Parkway
San Rafael, CA 94903.

I want to take this time to thank everyone for there support and please also cc a copy of documents you send.
THANK YOU ONE AND ALL!