State to hit pause on plan for no-fishing zones

In a major shift in environmental policy, the administration of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has decided to put on ``indefinite hold'' a landmark plan to create a network of marine reserves off California's coast designed to restore collapsing marine species, the Mercury News has learned.

The Monterey Bay marine sanctuary was a land grab from the people of California of the highest degree.

While the state Constitution guarantees that citizens have a right to fish, Julie Packard and the Packard foundation with their extremely large campaign contributions to Al Gore, Clinton and Sam Farr, got the federal government to grab the Bay and make it off limits to just about every human activity. Without any public input or discussion. They put an unelected council in charge of making the rules, and this group was extremely hostile to human activity of all sorts on the Bay and around it.

I remember the helicopters flying overhead one day, then seeing on the news later that night that Clinton had just declared the Bay a marine sanctuary, a move that flew in the face of state sovereignty and California state constitution.

The farmers in the area must be breathing a sigh of relief because they were about to be hit by the sanctuary dictators for allowing rainwater to run off their fields into the Bay. All part of the totalization plan the sanctuary people had to control the entire Monterey Bay basin. I think the people of this area, and of the state just dodged a huge bullet.

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