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Hello. I want to start with the fact that my family has been
fishing  and/or working on Sportfishing boats in Southern
California for over 90 years. Fishing our local waters, in and
offshore, is truly the center of my life and most of my family,
friends and the people that run the family owned Sportfishing
operations from San Francisco to San Diego. The regulations that
have been proposed by Governor Newsome  and  committee are
absolutely preposterous and truly impossible to conceive. The
things I have seen and experienced on the ocean in my life and the
lives of thousands of others,ARE IRREPLACEABLE!!!! To impose the
regulations that would be required would DESTROY thousands of
family owned businesses and the lives of those that depend on these
operations for income, recreation and true inner peace. The motive
behind this ridiculous change is completely ridiculous, due to the
fact that the required technology proposed is NOT AVAILABLE IN IN
FORM for the vessels that are being singled out and in my eyes
ATTACKED by people who have never experienced the ocean or have any
idea what they are doing to the people, families, wives children
and men who depend on this industry to provide a life for their
loved ones. The shutdown that will happen if this is passed WILL
DESTROY the lives of hundreds of thousands of families. The
absolute blindness of the political body that has proposed this
should go and ride one of the local operations in their area. These
operations are essential for the future of California and our
population. In closing, I WILL STATE THAT IF THESE REGULATIONS ARE
IMPOSED CALIFORNIA WILL LOSE A TREASURED PART OF ITS HISTORY. No
Sportfishing! No GOOD! Hopefully someone will read this and all the
other comments submitted and do the right thing. KEEP SPORTFISHING
ALIVE IN OUR STATE! The result if this outrageous demand, if
passed, will only damage the mind set our state as a whole with  a
situation of more unemployment and the loss of the most important
recreational sport on this PLANET.
       
                                   PLEASE DO THE RIGHT THING AND
LET US FISH,

                                                                   
           Clifford Evans Hughes II 🙏
                                                                   
             Lawndale, California