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Massachusetts Bills to be Heard Feb 28th!

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	Find attached above a word document with the e-mail addresses of MA legislative committee hearing the game fish bill, and the President of the Senate and Speaker of the House. Hearings are scheduled for the three bills backed by SF in the MA Legislature on Feb 28th at 11:00 AM. The Hearings will be in Room B-1 in the Statehouse Bldg on Beacon Hill in Boston. As a reminder, the bills, are 1.) To end the commercial fishery in MA http://www.malegislature.gov/Bills/187/House/H00260 ; 2.) To require the state to protect the health of citizens by testing and labeling wild striped bass sold and consumed here;http://www.malegislature.gov/Bills/187/House/H00259 and; 3.) To require the state to consider the economic value and importance of the recreational catch when regulating the fishery for striped bass..http://www.malegislature.gov/Bills/187/House/H00258 The bills linked to were all sponsored by Rep Stanley of Waltham. There are other similar bills filed in the House and Senate which will be merged into these three in committee deliberations. Please email us stripers@whatifnet.com for more information on the Hearings, prepared testimony, car-pooling etc..

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