The MLPA two step

[landwhale]

Just got word that the RSG leadership has done it again. At the end of the Thursday Meeting of the Stakeholders Group in Santa Ana they had come up with well thought up maps for the Opal and Topaz groups and the Lapis group could not agree on one map so sent forward 2. The guidelines called for 6 maps to be forwarded to SAT for evaluation so the RSG said that the Opal and Topaz maps would go forward and each RSG member was given a ballot to vote for 3 of the 4 remaining. The vote came back Lapis 1 = 63, Lapis 2 = 61, External A = 64, External B = 39, External C = 29. For those of you that do not know External C is the outside proposal from the environmental side that closes most of our fishing areas. The vote was to be made public on Tuesday though it never happened. Today the RSG members were informed by Mr. Wiseman that all 7 would be sent forward. I smell the money that is paying for the process pushing their proposal forward. It is more important now than ever that you get and stay involved. More info will be coming to you in the next days