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Schwarzenegger’s MLPA initiative officials can’t ever get it right

Posted by: Maven on March 13, 2010 at 7:47 am

From Dan Bacher at IndyBay.org:

“Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Marine Life Protection Act (MLPA) process is an absurd parody of marine “protection” that provides journalists like myself with bizarre stories that almost write themselves.

Over the past year, a contract boat mapping zones for the MLPA killed a blue whale off Fort Bragg, the Governor appointed an oil industry superstar to chair the Blue Ribbon Task Force for the South Coast, and numerous examples of corruption and conflicts of interests have been emerged in the process.

Now the Department of Fish and Game and the MLPA Initiative staff in Sacramento cannot even get it right on the date that the controversial recreational fishing regulations for the North Central Coast go into effect! … “

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March 13, 2010 · Filed Under Northern California

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