MLPA INFORMATION

[Billy V]

Originally Posted by PAL

A few more points. The MLPA has little to do with fisheries management. It is a habitat protection plan plain and simple. It will do little to benefit highly mobile species such as yellowtail and white seabass; this is really about the reefs, rockfish, bass, the lobsters and other invertebrates that scurry along the bottom.

This is exactly why most of us logical people are ticked off.
-The Fish and Game can achieve their objective by imposing Limits on desired species.
I do not see the advantage of blanket closures.