I wanted to remind everyone that the September Mass Striped Bass Assoc. meeting is a week early this month. I recieved this from Chuch C. and wanted to pass along the itinerary for this month's meeting:


I wanted to remind the membership that the Mass Striped Bass meeting is Wednesday, Sept 19th at 7:30PM at the Viking Club, Braintree.

This meeting will very unique as we have a multitude of political and fishery management representatives at the meeting that will include the following:

Paul Howard - Executive Director of the New England Fisheries Management Council
Jim Donofrio - Executive Director of the Recreational Fishing Alliance
Stephen Lynch - Current MA State Senator and Democratic candidate for US Congress

This is your opportunity to discuss the issues at hand for recreational fishing and for sustainable commercial fishing practices.

Topics that will be discussed:

Status and direction of New England's Groundfish Management Plans
Possibility of Circle Hook mandates in Amendment 6 for striped bass management
Environmental and recreational fishery issues


Thanks....

John

> Please don't harm the messenger but I've been informed that this
month's
> newsletter will be late again. However, I wanted to remind the
membership
> that the Mass Striped Bass meeting is Wednesday, Sept 19th at 7:30PM
at
> the
> Viking Club, Braintree.
>
> This meeting will be very unique as we have a multitude of political
and
> fishery management representatives at the meeting that will include
the
> following:
>
> Paul Howard - Executive Director of the New England Fisheries
Management
> Council
> Jim Donofrio - Executive Director of the Recreational Fishing
Alliance
> Stephen Lynch - Current MA State Senator and Democratic candidate for
US
> Congress
>
> This is your opportunity to discuss the issues at hand for
recreational
> fishing and for sustainable commercial fishing practices.
>
> Topics that will be discussed:
>
> Status and direction of New England's Groundfish Management Plans
> Possibility of Circle Hook mandates in Amendment 6 for striped bass
> management
> Environmental and recreational fishery issues
>
> Please pass this information along to friends and fellow club members
that
> may not have email. If possible, let me know via email if you plan to
> attend. ccasella@nef.com or casellac@aol.com
>
> Thanks!
> Chuck Casella,
> Legislative Liaison, MSBA
>
>
Guys Chuck sent me this e-mail and asked me to put it on the "message board thingies" I read. thats that

East Tide

Sorry, I didn't really read it (not a MSBA member anymore) but thought it was about the newsletter, not meeting until I saw that mine and John's post were kinda similiar, duh.

No problem Dave... So, when is your last day?