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The situation is definitely grim. It makes me ill to say it, but the BRTF considers that they left us anything at all at La Jolla to be generous. That's what we got from this debacle, by flooding meeting after meeting. I have no doubt we would have lost every last inch of LJ otherwise.
One important clarification. I still see a lot of confusion between the DFG and Fish and Game Commission. They are different things. The DFG takes our license money, enforces regulations via the warden force, and has biologists in the field.
The Fish and Commission is a set of 5 political appointees that sets the state's fish and game regulations, including bag limits, seasons, and where MLPA closures will be sited.
Our anger should be aimed at the BRTF and the F&G Commission. Most DFG staffers inlcuding the wardens are opposed to unfunded mandates, and the theft of public resources portrayed as environmentalism. Their professional association is publicly anti-MLPA.
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