| Comment | Protect the families that operate hundreds of passenger
sportfishing and whale watching boats in California.
The State's plan is to mandate engines too big to fit in existing
engine rooms. This is a BIG PROBLEM. The California Air Resources
Board (CARB) insists that boat owners can simply buy new boats that
would range in cost from $4.6 million to $5.7 million.
CARB insists that boat owners can pay for these expensive new boats
through increased passenger ticket prices. To buy new boats,
one-day fishing and or whale watching trips would have to Triple in
Price. There is no way sports fisherman can afford to take
themselves or their families out on the ocean at those prices. This
will mark the beginning of the end for sportfishing businesses,
their livelihoods - and sports fishermen's access to the sea.
There are thousands of jobs that will be lost as a result if this.
STOP THE MISGUIDED BUREAUCRATIC TINKERING WITH THIS INDUSTRY'S AND
THESE FAMILIES LIVELIHOODS!
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