Fisheries Hearing on Crab Fishery and Whale Entanglements

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This is a press release from California State Senator Mike McGuire:

Fisheries Hearing in San Francisco Next Week Focused on Whale Protection Efforts and State of the State on Latest Crab Season 

Sacramento, CA – Senator Mike McGuire, Chairman of the Joint Committee on Fisheries and Aquaculture (JCFA), and Assemblymember Mark Stone, Vice Chairman, are hosting a comprehensive hearing next week at the Aquarium of the Bay in San Francisco.

They will kick off the hearing with a State of the State of the California Dungeness Crab Season, one of the oldest commercial fisheries in California, and what to expect on ocean conditions, domoic acid levels and crab quality in the months to come.

Then they will transition into the robust efforts the State, Crab Fleet and numerous environmental organizations have been laser focused on: Protecting the Golden State’s majestic whales from entanglement. The committee will also be focused on the impacts large ships have been having on California whale populations.

“For several years now, California’s crab fishery has been on the brink of disaster due to high domoic acid levels in our ocean, and at next week’s hearing we’ll be taking a look at the current ocean conditions and how they’re impacting the crab fishery,” North Coast Senator Mike McGuire said. “We’ll also be discussing progress made from the critical legislation passed to protect California’s majestic whale populations from entanglement and other issues impacting whales including commercial ship strikes, which is a growing concern.”

The hearing titled: “Protecting California’s Whales from Entanglement and Maintaining the Sustainability of the Dungeness Crab Fishery” will be held Wednesday, November 28 from 1 to 5 p.m.at the Aquarium of the Bay – Farallon Room, PIER 39, The Embarcadero & Beach Street San Francisco, California.

The Committee has brought some of the nation’s top experts on the Dungeness crab fishery and those responsible for reducing whale entanglements together for one significant event next Wednesday. The Committee will also begin the investigation into commercial ship strikes and how it’s become a growing concern for California’s whale populations.

The agenda features presentations by agency leaders, scientists, commercial fishing representatives, non-governmental organizations, and environmental advocates.

Deborah Halberstadt, California Natural Resources Agency Deputy Secretary for Oceans and Coastal Policy, and Charlton Bonham, Director of the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, headline this year’s list of speakers and presenters.

A final list of presenters will be released early next week.

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Willie Caso-Mayhem
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5 years ago

What can be done to bring down the acid levels?

The misadventures of Bunjee
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The misadventures of Bunjee
5 years ago

Get rid of what causes algae blooms. The acid is created by algae and is passed up the food chain to fish and shellfish to humans. Even birds. Concentrations above .5mg/kg body weight causes brain damage, resulting in memory loss, seizures and kidney damage. Food prep and cooking do nothing to get rid of it.

Trivia: Hitchcock’s The Birds hasreference to an actual event that ocurred in Capitola and Santa Cruz in Aug. 1961. It it theirized that ASP, or amnesiac shellfish poisoning caused an invasion of psychotic birds.

Central HumCo
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5 years ago

I like what you say.

Learn something everyday – mostly in here where Let the Public Speak can be heard – digested and debated upon request.

Willie caos- mayhem
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5 years ago

Thank you for that expanded explanation.

Bozo
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Bozo
5 years ago

>”Get rid of what causes algae blooms.”

Increased sea temperatures + available nutrients = algae blooms.

Rest of the document above = awesome political bullshit.