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I have prepare my comments, see below:
I believe that all the members on this panel want to protect California’s natural resources and your final decision will reflect that desire. As a fisherman, I also want to protect California’s natural resources.
The uneducated knee jerk solution is to restrict all human interaction. It sounds great, but it’s an extreme action, because like it or not humans are part of natural evolution. From past history we know that when man has interfered with the predator/prey balance unexpected consequences have occurred. This includes the extinction of some species due to overpopulation and disease. The same species man thought he was protecting.
It’s time to pay attention to lessons nature gives us. Nature does best when balanced. Life exists in extreme heat or extreme cold and flourishes in between these extremes. California’s natural resources will survive if you make an extreme ruling like unrestricted fishing, or complete closure, but, it will not flourish in the extremes.
The balance is to manage each species individually using size limits, catch limits, and catch seasons. Require dynamic revaluation of this management. Help the environment, help nature thrive, balance your ruling between the extremes. Listen to nature it knows better than any man or woman.
Thank You.
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