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sample letter to fight IFQ
Posted by AKCAPT on Apr 18 2005
Some of you may not know what to say or who to contact about the charter IFQ plan. Here is a sample letter you can save it and send via email or regualr mail to the follow addresses:
Admiral Lautenbacker's office:
jennifer.koss@noaa.gov
and
The Honorable Senator Ted Stevens
522 Hart Senate Office Bldg.
Washington DC 20510
April 24, 2005
Dear Admiral Lautenbacker ,
I am an Alaskan recreational halibut fisherman
I strongly oppose the proposed charter halibut IFQ plan. There is no justifiable rationale to impose an IFQ management scheme on the halibut charter fishery in Alaska. It is an unreasonable program developed without sufficient analysis and is not justifiable, regardless of the momentum behind it. I am asking you to demand a better study of the impacts and also to preserve fishing opportunities for future generations of anglers. I also ask you to prevent the giveaway of a public resource.
The Council has not sufficiently analyzed the potential impacts on the anglers who go out on charter vessels. It has been standard practice for other Management Councils to hold public meetings in many communities to obtain public comment in a less intimidating and more convenient setting than a NPFMC meeting in Anchorage. This has not happened. There has been no effort to inform potential charter operators or recreational fishermen that restrictive measures would be forth coming. Only a fisherman astute enough to study the federal register would have known that these measures were coming.
The final analysis fails to present any understanding of the Alaskan charter industry or recreational fishing in America. The fact is that if the charter IFQ program is implemented, the plan may destroy the charter fishing industry, which creates thousands of jobs and stimulates the economies of dozens of coastal communities.
In conclusion, implementation any management measure on the charter industry would be done so with out proper research, public testimony, and for no reason other to preserve the historic income levels for a certain few, at the expense of everyone else. In times of low abundance charter operators would be happy to share in the pain but at this time of extremely high abundance of halibut we would like to share in the gain.
I would ask you in the strongest terms possible to intervene and stop this reckless action from destroying hundreds of Alaskan businesses and negatively affecting our Alaskan family’s access to this public resource.
Sincerely
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