Stripers Forever - Massachusetts:
So far, we’ve sent every member of the Massachusetts legislature a copy of the MA Southwick Study. One legislator has already called and asked for six more copies. Undoubtedly, the report is causing a stir in some circles of the legislature. We are going to do more to push the striped bass game fish issue with legislators in just a few weeks. But, before that happens, we very much need your help with the following:
You’ve heard that the pen is mightier than the sword; today it is a toss up between the pen and the computer. But a lot of folks still read the newspaper, and politicians keep an eye on it for local sentiment. So with this broadside appeal, we are asking every member of Stripers Forever in Massachusetts to do the following:
1. Find the letter attached to this e-mail and personalize it with your name and address. Print the letter and mail it to the editor-in-chief of your local newspaper. We think he/she will publish your letter in the paper where other striper fishermen and your political representatives will see it. This will help seed the ground for both a state and/or national striped bass game fish bill.
2. To be really effective in getting our message to the press in Massachusetts on a regular basis, we need to flesh out our newspaper press list. Snail mail addresses are of no value to us for press releases; we need the e-mail address.
So, please find the e-mail address of either the outdoor writer or a reporter who regularly covers the environment for your local newspaper. If the paper does not have a writer/reporter assigned to either of those beats, get us the name and e-mail address of the Editor-in-Chief.
Once you have this information, contact Stripers Forever by hitting “contact us”
the contact, town, and name of the newspaper.
Both of these tasks will take less than a half hour combined. When you think of
how important striped bass fishing is to you, it’s well worth the effort to help end
the wholesale killing of prime breeding-age stripers for the financial benefit of so few people.
Brad Burns
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