California Fisheries Relief Funding Soon to be Available for Select Sectors Affected by COVID-19

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Fisherman’s memorial nearly underwater.[Photo by NWS Eureka staff]

Press release from the Department of Fish and Wildlife:

Coastal and marine fishery participants – including licensed commercial fishermen, fish buyers, aquaculture businesses, charter boat owners and guides – who have experienced a loss of income due to the effects of COVID-19 may be eligible for federal relief funding disbursed through the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW).

The funding is part of the federal Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act. This more than $2 trillion economic relief package provides direct economic assistance for American workers, families and small businesses that have been impacted COVID-19. About $18 million in CARES funding was earmarked specifically for fisheries assistance in California.

CDFW estimates that there are more than 11,500 potentially eligible applicants for this funding, including individuals who work in the offshore, shoreside, aquaculture, commercial passenger fishing vessel and guide sectors.

Eligibility will be based on, among other things, a minimum 35 percent loss of fishing related income due to COVID-19 between Jan. 1 and June 30, 2020. Applicants must also submit documentation demonstrating active involvement in a qualifying sector. The approved disbursement plan can be found here.

The Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission (PSMFC) is serving as fiscal agent for these funds. PSMFC will mail claim forms to all potentially eligible applicants to the address on file with CDFW. Forms and documentation must be returned within 30 days to be eligible for disbursement. Following the close of the 30-day response period, final disbursement totals will be calculated and relief checks will be issued to qualified applicants. CDFW is requesting all potentially eligible applicants update their address on file by Monday, Aug. 17, 2020. Address verification instructions are available here.

For more information, please refer to CDFW’s webpage for the CARES Act. Email inquiries can be sent to CDFW at CARESfisheriesInfo@wildlife.ca.gov.

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steve adams
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steve adams
3 years ago

Salmon fisheries, particularly in the Chinook and Copper River runs in the Pacific, are in the words of a biologist examining the post Fukushima impacts, in a state of epic collapse. Season closures came incredibly early with runs that used to see millions of fish reduced to the tens or low hundreds of thousands.

Gray whales are showing up beached and emaciated, some showing signs of abnormal predation from Orcas. Gray whales now being another species perhaps headed for extinction.

Conservation is not being practiced when scientists and engineers from other disciplines feel it is their god given right to promote an energy source whose waste products are deadly for thousands of years longer than human civilization.

In the pursuit of profit we almost allowed, and may yet still see, even the dying of the redwoods. Collapse signs are everywhere.

Reminded of a passage from Isaiah. “If you forget my knowledge, I will forget your children.” Since we are part of God’s image we know you do not put a reactor in an active earthquake and tsunami zone on porous geology and soils, and use a technology that had not one but multiple whistleblowers.

It is the nuclear village that should be going into epic collapse and not the salmon. BDS. Boycott companies involved in nuclear, learn who they are and Divest from those companies in any investments you have and from any banks lending to them, and Sanction their making of ecocidal new nukes and reactors.

Science says no
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Science says no
3 years ago
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Radioactive contamination is measurable with detectors. How does non-detectable radiation kill whales and fish runs? It doesn’t. You’re on the wrong track.

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cu2morrow
3 years ago

onset of frustration from a unorganized agenda.