ACTION ALERT: Massachusetts No-Fishing MPA Legislation!

[Swimmer]

I can see in a very short period of time friends and family of Mr. O'Leary having jobs on the new ocean management task force. I should be writing something anything more appropriate here, but I smell a huge power grab by the cape cod pundit. This really really smells.

[MoroneSaxatilis]

So how did the vote turn out?

[Flaptail]

Todays CCTimes says that O'Leary has dropped the MPAs' from his bill?

[MoroneSaxatilis]

Perhaps one of the moderators could combine the 2 ACTION ALERT/MPA threads?

[Offshore]

Originally Posted by Flaptail

Todays CCTimes says that O'Leary has dropped the MPAs' from his bill?

That's true and the bill will go to the legislature with no section on creating MPAs. MPA section was deleted due to fisherman objections.

In that mode, with no MPA section, it is probably a good bill and worthy of support.

[MakoMike]

Looks like you guys won, Congrats!

[Offshore]

Originally Posted by MakoMike

Looks like you guys won, Congrats!

While a few of us did some work to defeat it; in retrospect, I think it was the commercial groups like CapeCodCom.Hook Fishermen, NAMA and NH Fisheries Coalition to name a few.

[thefishingfreak]

dont forget about the
m.s.b.a.

and all the work Mike and Patric put in to this