Do Something about River Herring Mon & Tues Evening - Striper Talk Striped Bass Fishing, Surfcasting, Boating

TheSurfcaster · 12-03-2008, 06:19 AM

12/02/2008

Division of Marine Fisheries
251 Causeway Street
Suite 400
Boston, MA 01221

Re: Public Hearing in Plymouth, MA

To Whom It May Concern:

I tried, I guess in vain, to gather fishermen to attend the public hearing last night in Plymouth. I was disappointed by what I thought was a low attendance, small turn out. Could you give me a head count of the people in attendance at last night meeting held in Plymouth, not by name just by group if possible?

Thank you,

and here is the response............

The following is a list of groups that were represented at the public hearing in Plymouth MA last night:
SRPEDD (Southeast Regional Planning and Economic Development District)
MA Striped Bass Association
MBBA
Stripa Tackle Co.
Cape Cod Comm. Hook Fishermen's Assoc.
The Nature Conservancy

In total, there were nine members of the public who attended, as well as three state representatives.
There is also a meeting tonight in Gloucester, MA at 6 pm where we will be collecting additional public comment.

If you need any more information on Amendment 2 please feel free to contact me.

Cheers,
Kate Taylor

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Kate Taylor, FMP Coordinator
Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission
1444 Eye St., N.W., 6th Floor
Washington, D.C. 20005

www.asmfc.org
p: 202-289-6400
e: ktaylor@asmfc.org

IF ANYONE HAVE ANY SUGGESTIONS ON HOW TO GET MORE TO ATTEND PLEASE POST THEM,

MAYBE AN E-MAIL TO ALL MEMBERS BELONGING TO FISHING CLUBS?

JohnR · 12-03-2008, 07:24 AM

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Originally Posted by TheSurfcaster

IF ANYONE HAVE ANY SUGGESTIONS ON HOW TO GET MORE TO ATTEND PLEASE POST THEM,

MAYBE AN E-MAIL TO ALL MEMBERS BELONGING TO FISHING CLUBS?

More people simply need to decide to go. Some people go to a lot or a few meetings/hearings but most don't go an let others do it.

We simply need more and better representation of individual anglers.

Recently, the Daunis R.O.W. issue was settled largely by the unexpected turn out of many Barrington Anglers. This worked by people getting the word out and getting people to show up.

We need to be able to do the same on other issues, yeh, it's a pain in the arse, but if we don't do it, we'll lose it.