Legislative Alert:

Assembly Bill 1806

From the California Sportfishing Protection Alliance

Anglers, commercial fishermen, and the fish need your help to pass critically needed state legislation. Salmon, steel-head, pelagic fish, and the Bay-Delta ecosystem are in, grave danger of extinction in the next few years. Our fishing groups are active and united in efforts to save the Delta ecosystem and fisheries. We are working closely with Assemblywoman Lois Wolk to address these serious  problems. We can prevail on the need to have appropriate mitigation for the significant damages to the public's fishery resource caused by the operation of the state and federal water projects, but we need your help now!

To save the estuary's fisheries, those who use water exported from the Delta must mitigate the damages to the public s fisheries caused by the state and federal water projects operations. Assembly Bill 1806 by Assemblywoman Lois Wolk does just that.

In addition to the provisions in the bill that require emergency preparedness to prevent future Prospect Island debacles this bill requires mitigation for the direct and indirect fish losses caused by the fed­eral and state water projects that divert water from the Delta.

Assemblywoman Wolk, and our fish­ing groups working with her, would appre­ciate support from environmental and conservation groups and the public to help pass the bill. The water contractors lobby has been very active in opposition, but this did not stop the bill from recently passing the Assembly Water, Parks and Wildlife Committee. However, we now face far more difficult challenges that require your engagement if we are to be successful.

Please send letters of support to:

Assemblymember Lois Wolk

State Capitol

Sacramento, CA94249-0008