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| 2nd Annual CCA Legislative Day |
The Coastal Conservation Association of North Carolina invites you to our Annual Legislative Day in Raleigh on Wednesday, June 2nd. This is a unique opportunity for recreational anglers to come together to visit with and inform our state legislators about issues that affect our coastal resource. By speaking with and distributing informational packets to our state Legislators, we wish to make sure they know who CCA is and the legislative agenda we are supporting. The information packets provided will explain our position(s) clearly and concisely.
We want to visit every Senator and every Representative!
In order to do this we need YOUR help!
Legislative Day Agenda
8:00 AM: Breakfast for Conservation. Meet at the Legislative cafeteria to host a breakfast for the Congressional members of the House Marine Resources Committee, Senate Agriculture & Environmental Committee, and the NC Sportsmen's Caucus.
9:00 AM: "Walk the Halls". CCA informational meeting in the cafeteria. Visit with State Congressional Members
2:00 PM (optional): Stay and observe the House and Senate Sessions
Location
North Carolina Legislative Building
16 West Jones Street, Raleigh, NC 27601
(Across from the State Capital; note: Cafeteria is on the lower level)
Parking: Pass the Legislative Building and turn left on North Wilmington. Merge left at the end of the block and you will essentially turn around onto North Salisbury Street. Visitor parking is located at the third parking deck on the right (Deck #75). The Legislative Office Building and the Legislative Building are located on the left side of the road.
Please make your plans to attend!!
For more information please contact CCA NC
www.ccanc.org
(919) 781-3474
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| 17 May 2010 - 09:20 by CCA North Carolina |
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| DEIS ORV Plan for Cape Hatteras National Seashore and Recreational Area |
The Coastal Conservation Association North Carolina’s position on the recently released Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) on the ORV Management plan for Cape Hatteras National Seashore Recreation Area (CHNSRA)issued by the National Park Service (NPS). The objective of CCA is to conserve, promote and enhance the present and future availability of these coastal resources for the benefit and enjoyment of the general public. As such the thousands of members and volunteers of CCA NC and their nearly three quarters of a million associated recreational anglers are very disappointed in the six options for ORV management on CHNSRA. First of all the document itself is very difficult to follow in its 800+ pages. The tragedy is that none of the six options reflect the wishes of the vast majority of the CHNSRA visiting public and CCA NC. While there are preferred environmental and NPS options, there is no pro-access preferred option. The CHNSRA was established specifically for the American public to enjoy the seashore. To propose no option which provides a maximum access option certainly violates the spirit and perhaps the letter of the laws establishing this national park. Without serving the visiting public, the NPS has failed in its responsibility to our citizens. All the options presented in the DEIS seek to restrict public access well beyond any reasonable or legal requirement.
It is clear that significant facts have been ignored in the preparation of this DEIS. The success of turtle nesting and piping plover nesting and fledging is virtually unchanged since the de facto ORV plan was implemented in 1978. The primary causes of failed nesting and fledging are overwhelmingly predation and weather events which have occurred for hundreds of years. ORV caused mortality is a fraction of 1%. The USFWS and NPS personnel have caused more plover mortality. Yet, the NPS chooses to attack those users who are very sensitive to the wildlife in the CHNSRA.
The DEIS options all include restrictions which, when implemented as they have been under the consent decree, will unnecessarily close miles and miles of beach access both from the ocean and sound side. The many options describe no action which can circumvent a nesting closure in order to access an open area of the beach. Thus, while a stretch of waterfront may be "open" it is inaccessible. This represents nothing more than verbal trickery and masks the true available waterfront.
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| 10 May 2010 - 08:38 by CCA North Carolina |
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| ASMFC Continues Effort to Increase Commercial Bass Harvest |
Gamble to increase commercial take by up to 50 percent heads for public hearings
WASHINGTON DC - Anglers will soon have the opportunity to comment on a new effort to increase the coastal commercial harvest of striped bass by 20 to 50 percent, after the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission's (ASMFC) Striped Bass Management Board voted this week to send the proposal out for public hearing.
Last February, conservationists were stunned when the Board chose to ignore a litany of significant concerns from scientists and enforcement officers about the health of the striped bass population, and instead directed its staff to draft the proposal. This week's 10-6 vote to send the proposal out for public hearing indicates that many members of the Board are committed to ramping up commercial harvest even as anglers are seeing serious warning signs on the water.
"This is the wrong message at the wrong time for striped bass, but it is not surprising," said Charles Witek, chairman of CCA's Atlantic Fisheries Committee. "When recently faced with even worse situations involving weakfish and the southern New England stock of winter flounder, both very badly depleted and both faced with apparent increases in natural mortality, ASMFC ignored clear scientific advice and voted to maintain harvest at unsustainable levels. Our greatest conservation challenge may simply be to convince managers at ASMFC to do their jobs."
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| 7 May 2010 - 12:58 by CCA North Carolina |
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