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More letters needed, new instructions!

AB 1253 the bill to wipe out striped bass: Have you written your letter yet?

April 7, 2009 -- AB 1253, the bill introduced by Assembly woman Fuller (Bakersfield) to deregulate and remove all support for the striped bass is still on the agenda to be heard by the Assembly Water Parks and Wildlife Committee. CSPA has sponsored a letter writing campaign to kill the bill in committee and we understand our supporters are having an impact. However, this is no time to slack off. Each and every letter received by the committee is counted as pro or con and the totals are reported on the date of the hearing. We want to make sure that the pile of letters in the pile recommending the bill be killed overwhelms those in the pile recommending its passage.

You can track the bill on-line at the following site,

http://www.assembly.ca.gov/acs/acsframeset2text.htm

The bill will be heard by committee on April 28th.

The committee secretary states to be the most effective we should do the following:

Here are the NEW instructions to send your letters to the committee.

Send ONE letter to the Water, Parks and Wildlife Committee either snail mail or FAX.

 The committee does NOT want e-mail!

The address of the committee is:

Assemblymember Jared Huffman, Chair
Assembly Committee on Water, Parks & Wildlife
1020 N Street, Suite 160
Sacramento, CA 94249

The fax number is:

916-319-2196

Your letters should be addressed:

Re: Opposition to AB 1253 (Fuller) - Striped Bass

Chairman Huffman and Members of the Committee:

Sample letters and letters to individual committee members

 Two sample letters follow. You are encouraged to cut and paste as you see fit and add your own comments as well.

You are still encouraged to send snail mail or e-mail responses to individual assembly members IF YOU LIVE IN THEIR DISTRICT. The list of committee members, their addresses and districts follow the sample letters.

Sample letter #1

Dear Assembly member __________________,

As a California angler, voter and taxpayer, I strongly oppose passage of AB 1253, the bill to delist and remove support of the striped bass as a California game fish.. Please vote this bill down when it comes before you as a member of the Assembly Water, Parks and Wildlife Committee.

Sincerely,

Your name
Address including zip code (important)

Sample letter #2

Dear Assembly member __________________,

As a California angler, voter and taxpayer, I strongly oppose AB 1253, the bill introduced by Assembly member Fuller, intending to delist and remove support of the striped bass as a California game fish.

The striped bass, a fish legally introduced to the State by the California Fish and Game Commission, established itself as one of the state's premier game fish and coexisted in harmony for over 130 years with the state's native fishes. Even in the 1930's when the striped bass population was believed to exceed 12 million adult fish and the species was fished commercially, the fish did not impact the state's salmon stocks or the health of the delta's fisheries including the delta smelt and the longfin smelt.

The striped bass fishery along with the chinook salmon, steelhead, delta smelt, longfin smelt, American Shad, green sturgeon, white sturgeon fisheries only began to decline with the operation of the State Water Project and the Central Valley Project in the late 1960's. As exports have increased, the populations of all of these fishes has crashed to all time historical lows with the delta smelt now on the endangered species list, the longfin smelt threatened, the chinook salmon run the lowest in history. The current striped bass popluations is also at historical lows.

The striped bass is a fish of legend and has been a part of California's angling heritage for 130 years. AB 1253, a bill sponsored by a number of water districts is an obvious attempt to transfer the blame of the decline of California's once great fisheries to one of the species that made the California Delta one of the greatest fisheries on earth instead of their insatiable demand for larger and larger amounts of delta water. They  realize that if the delta's fisheries can be destroyed, it is one less reason to obstruct the draining of the delta for subsidized agribusiness farming.

Please vote this bill down when it comes before your committee. If passed, it will do nothing to restore California's once great fisheries and will cause the destruction of one of California's greatest game fish.

Sincerely,

Your name
Address including zip code (important)

Assembly Water Parks and Wildlife Committee
Chair
   
Jared Huffman (D)
State Capitol
P.O. Box 942849
Sacramento, CA 94249-0006
Tel: (916) 319-2006
Fax: (916) 319-2106
Assemblymember.Huffman@assembly.ca.gov 6th Assembly District -- Marin headlands including Sausalito, Novato, Petaluma
     
Vice Chair (And AB 1253 Sponsor)
   
Jean Fuller (R)
State Capitol, Room 3098
Sacramento, CA 95814
916-319-2032,
916-319-2132 fax
Assemblymember.Fuller@assembly.ca.gov 32nd Assembly District --
Bakersfield, Frazier Park, Kern River Valley, Ridgecrest, Taft, Tehachapi
     
Members 
     
Joel Anderson (R)
State Capitol
Sacramento, CA 95814
(916) 319-2077,
(916) 319-2177 fax
Assemblymember.Anderson@assembly.ca.gov 77th Assembly District --  Eastern San Diego area, part of the Imperial Valley
     
Juan Arambula (D)
State Capitol
P.O. Box 942849
Sacramento, CA 94249-0031
(916) 319-2031
(916) 319-2131 Fax
Assemblymember.arambula@assembly.ca.gov 31st Assembly District --  Firebaugh, Mendota, San Joaquin, Fresno, Selma, Sanger, Reedley
     
Tom Berryhill (R)
State Capitol Room # 3141
Sacramento, CA 95814
916-319-2025
916-319-2125 fax
Assemblymember.Berryhill@assembly.ca.gov 25th Assembly District --  Calaveras, Tuolumne, Mono, Mariposa, and Madera counties, eastern portion of Stanislaus County
     
Bob Blumenfield (D)
State Capitol
P.O. Box 942849
Sacramento, CA 94249-0040
Tel: (916) 319-2040
Fax: (916) 319-2140
Assemblymember.Blumenfield@assembly.ca.gov   40th Assembly District --  Canoga Park, Winnetka, Reseda, Northridge, Van Nuys
     
Anna M. Caballero (D)
State Capitol, P.O. Box 942849  Sacramento, CA 94249-0028  Tel: (916) 319-2028
Fax: (916) 319-2128
Assemblymember.Caballero@assembly.ca.gov 28th Assembly District --  Morgan Hill, Gilroy, Salinas, Watsonville, San Juan Batista, Soledad, San Lucas, Bradley
     
Nathan Fletcher (R)
State Capitol, Room 2111
Sacramento, CA 95814
916-319-2075, 916-319-2175 fax
Assemblymember.Fletcher@assembly.ca.gov 75th Assembly District -- San Diego area
     
Alyson Huber (D)
State Capitol
P.O. Box 942849
Sacramento, CA 94249-0010
Tel: (916) 319-2010
Fax: (916) 319-2110
Assemblymember.huber@assembly.ca.gov 10th Assembly District -- Elk Grove, Plymouth, Jackson, Lodi, Ione, Sutter Creek, Woodbridge
     
Bonnie Lowenthal (D)
State Capitol
P.O. Box 942849
Sacramento, CA 94249-0054
Tel: (916) 319-2054
Fax: (916) 319-2154
Assemblymember.Lowenthal@assembly.ca.gov 54th Assembly District -- Long Beach
     
John A. Perez (D)
State Capitol
P.O. Box 942849
Sacramento, CA 94249-0046
Tel: (916) 319-2046
Fax: (916) 319-2146
Assemblymember.John.Perez@assembly.ca.gov 46th Assembly District --
East Los Angeles
Florence-Graham
Huntington Park
Los Angeles
Maywood
Vernon
     
Mary Salas (D)
State Capitol, P.O. Box 942849 Sacramento, CA 94249-0079 Tel: (916) 319-2079
Fax: (916) 319-2179
Assemblymember.Salas@assembly.ca.gov 79th Assembly District -- National City, Chula Vista, Coronado, Imperial Beach
     
Mariko Yamada (D)
State Capitol
P.O. Box 942849
Sacramento, CA 94249-0008
(916) 319-2008
(916) 319-2108 fax
Assemblymember.Yamada@assembly.ca.gov 8th Assembly District -- Benica, Vacaville, Fairfield, Dixon, Davis, West Sacramento, Rio Vista