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Stripers Forever Members –
Massachusetts Director of the Division of Marine Fisheries, Paul J. Diodati, authored a white paper in January of 2005 entitled “Management of the Massachusetts Commercial Striped Bass Fishery.” This document describes and defends the Division’s attitudes and policies regarding the commercial bass fishery. We received a copy of the DMF paper last month and have delivered our response/rebuttal to Governor Romney, with copies to other state officials .It will come as no surprise that we strongly disagree with the overall policy and with much of the author’s rhetoric. The DMF paper, a brief summary of Stripers Forever's position, our full rebuttal, and a list of Massachusetts policy makers can all be found on our website www.stripersforever.org by clicking “SF rebuts MA Commercial policy letter” on the home page bulletin board. We are pleased to have Mr. Diodati articulate the Division's policy; we hope that SF’s comments will generate a robust debate about the best use of this valuable resource.
Please note in the SF letter that Fred H. Jennings, Ph.D. is now the Massachusetts State Chairman for Stripers Forever, with Dean Clark assuming the role of Vice Chairman. In addition to his credentials as an economist, Fred is a guide from Ipswich, and a life-long passionate fan of the striped bass. He is charged up to change striped bass management in MA, and we ask you all to give him lots of help.
Why not send your own letters to Governor Romney and others on the attached list? We think that your letters will be more effective sent by snail mail on this particular issue. You’ll find everything that you need if you go to our website www.stripersforever.org and click on: “SF rebuts MA Commercial policy letter” on the home page bulletin board. If you want to use e-mail just go to the website, find the map on the left side of the website, and click on Massachusetts. You will see a menu with Contact State Officials that will give you all the important e-mail addresses. Don’t hesitate to cut and paste information from our letters as an e-mail template.
We also suggest that you take the information in our rebuttal, get together with a fishing friend, and pay a visit to your local legislator. Let him or her know that, from social, economic, and conservation standpoint, Massachusetts residents and non-residents alike would benefit by making wild striped bass a gamefish.
Brad Burns
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