SPEAKING STRATEGY: PLEASE READ --> We are slaying this beast - Kayak Fishing Adventures on Big Water’s Edge

zenspearo · 06-03-2009, 02:32 PM

GUYS,

We have an opportunity to speak twice. Whoo hoo.

So here's the latest coordinated strategy for H&L, kayakfishermen, and spearos.

1) Fill out TWO cards. One should specify "Agenda item H (Wiseman memo) and others" and one should specify "GENERAL"

The first speaking time will be at 9:40AM or shortly thereafter. The second speaking time is scheduled to be 11:30 for now but it may be pushed back.

You drove all the way up--may as well do it!!! Remember the next BRTF meeting is in July--and then it's pretty much over.

2) We have been talking about speaking out against External Proposal C. That will be shortly after the 9:40AM discussion by the BRTF. You all should check the various posts for ideas on what to speak.

For the general speaking session that is supposed to start at 11:30AM, you can speak about socio-economic impact to YOUR diving area, asking the BRTF to give guidance for minimum closures since this is an adaptive process and once more data (both science and socio-economic) are available, better decisions can be made. Don't rush a long term decision on poor or non-existence data...etc.

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Whatever you do, at the end of your speech, please insert a few seconds and implore that the process be paused.

Here is the gist, feel free to put in your own words: Please address the point that there is, in addition to a science data gap, a socio-economic data gap, a financial gap, there is now a credibility gap. The science data gap and the socio-economic data gap come from the inadequate Ecotrust data. The finance gap comes from the fact that the state is flat broke, and we see the cost creeping up at every turn --and no way to pay for closures and DFG is broke. The credibility gap comes from the constantly shifting rules, the demoralized RSGs and incidents like not providing science data material to the RSG until the night before and expecting them to act on it the next day on voluminous data they don't have time to read, and a distrusting public through incidents such as the External C vote.

This process needs to be paused for these gaps to be fixed.

This is what we want to coordinate and it needs to be repeated 200 times tomorrow to support ongoing legislative activities and other activities.

06-03-2009, 02:32 PM	#1
zenspearo Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2009 Posts: 167	SPEAKING STRATEGY: PLEASE READ --> We are slaying this beast GUYS, We have an opportunity to speak twice. Whoo hoo. So here's the latest coordinated strategy for H&L, kayakfishermen, and spearos. 1) Fill out TWO cards. One should specify "Agenda item H (Wiseman memo) and others" and one should specify "GENERAL" The first speaking time will be at 9:40AM or shortly thereafter. The second speaking time is scheduled to be 11:30 for now but it may be pushed back. You drove all the way up--may as well do it!!! Remember the next BRTF meeting is in July--and then it's pretty much over. 2) We have been talking about speaking out against External Proposal C. That will be shortly after the 9:40AM discussion by the BRTF. You all should check the various posts for ideas on what to speak. For the general speaking session that is supposed to start at 11:30AM, you can speak about socio-economic impact to YOUR diving area, asking the BRTF to give guidance for minimum closures since this is an adaptive process and once more data (both science and socio-economic) are available, better decisions can be made. Don't rush a long term decision on poor or non-existence data...etc. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Whatever you do, at the end of your speech, please insert a few seconds and implore that the process be paused. Here is the gist, feel free to put in your own words: Please address the point that there is, in addition to a science data gap, a socio-economic data gap, a financial gap, there is now a credibility gap. The science data gap and the socio-economic data gap come from the inadequate Ecotrust data. The finance gap comes from the fact that the state is flat broke, and we see the cost creeping up at every turn --and no way to pay for closures and DFG is broke. The credibility gap comes from the constantly shifting rules, the demoralized RSGs and incidents like not providing science data material to the RSG until the night before and expecting them to act on it the next day on voluminous data they don't have time to read, and a distrusting public through incidents such as the External C vote. This process needs to be paused for these gaps to be fixed. This is what we want to coordinate and it needs to be repeated 200 times tomorrow to support ongoing legislative activities and other activities. __________________ A spearo, but we are in this MLPA mess together Last edited by zenspearo; 06-03-2009 at 02:53 PM.