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CSPA ALERT! ACTION NEEDED NOW! WRITE A LETTER TO THE FISH AND GAME COMMISSION ABOUT STRIPED BASS REGULATION PROPOSAL TO BE HEARD AT FEBRUARY 2, 2012 MEETING
It is time to write that letter to the California State Fish and Game Commission. Why is this important? If we don’t turn back this cynical and spiteful effort by San Joaquin Valley agribusiness, we stand to lose an outstanding striped bass fishery and its Delta protecting constituency. Furthermore, leading fisheries biologists believe that the…
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Lawsuit filed to Stop Toxic Discharges to San Joaquin River
On 9 November 2011, the California Sportfishing Protection Alliance, Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen’s Associations, Friends of the River, Crab Boat Owners Association and retired USFWS biologist Felix Smith sued the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation and San Luis Delta Mendota Water Authority over their failure to secure Clean Water Act permits for the discharge of…
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CSPA, broad coalition submit highly critical comments and issue press release on Delta Plan
The California Sportfishing Protection Alliance (CSPA) has joined more than 200 other environmental, environmental justice, tribal and commercial and recreational fishing organization in submitting extensive comments on the Delta Stewardship Council’s Fifth Draft Delta Plan. The coalition letter notes that the Delta Plan is seriously deficient, does little more than maintain the status quo, will…
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CSPA Press Release
For comment please contact: Bill Jennings, California Sportfishing Protection Alliance, 209-938-9053 and/or Carolee Krieger, California Water Impact Network, 805-969-0824 After a federal study warns San Joaquin River’s toxic agricultural wastewater load too high, U.S. Bureau of Reclamation bans representatives of fishing and environmental groups from meetings of agency team tasked with monitoring toxic discharges. Groups issue joint letter…
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CSPA Appeals Agricultural Waiver and EIR
The California Sportfishing Protection Alliance (CSPA) and California Water Impact Network (C-WIN) have appealed the extension of the Irrigated Lands Regulatory Program (ILRP) Waiver and the ILRP Program Environmental Impact Report (EIR) adopted by the Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board (Regional Board) to the State Water Resources Control Board (State Board). The “waiver”…
