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The approach CARB is taking with the madate will cause these
existing vessels which have many years of useful life to be sold to
other countries where they will continue to be used and not result
in a net benefit of reducing pollution.  Reason being they will
continue to be in service and few owners and sportfishers will be
able to afford new boat or higher fares which will reduce the fleet
to just a few boats at very high prices.

I will have to go fishing out of Mexico or somewhere else and our
local economy will suffer.  Many people work on those boats and
rely on the tips and fares generated.  Why regulate the small
family boat owner out of business?  Is this best for California
when people can just go elsewhere to fish.

Keep the status quo as it is working fine and if you wanna mandate
something, do it on all new purchases, create incentives to buy
existing retrofit technology if it exists but make it optional at
this time.

A pilot program would be in order now to study the impact before
full implimentation.