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By Steve Rebuck

Mrs. Carol Fulton-Yeates, representing Friends of the Sea Otter, appears to have it all figured out: just ban one more Central Coast fishery and all will be well for the sea otter in California. After all, we are only talking a few fishermen, right?

In 1971, the U.S. Congress held hearings on what would become the Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA). One of the articles used to “educate” Congress was titled “Sea Otters Ambushed.”

Discussing illegal shooting of sea otters, the article states: “The otters killed have been sacrificed to the mistaken belief that they threaten a minute fishery for a luxury food we could well do without. The town of Morro Bay, population 8,500, is the self styled abalone capital of California and center of the abalone-otter dispute. Despite this prominence in the matter, only 25 families in Morro Bay make their living fishing for abalone or processing them.”

My parents moved to Morro Bay in the early 1950′s to fish abalone. As I remember it, there were a lot more than 25 families involved in this unique enterprise. I remember well how it was all of us who were blamed for many years for the decline of abalone and Pismo clams. In recent years, published scientific studies have vindicated the commercial abalone and recreational clambers.

Who gives Friends of the Sea Otter the right to declare what foods are a luxury and unnecessary? When I was a youngster, fish, abalone, and clams were a staple. Some of us even traded our abalone sandwiches for peanut butter and jelly at Morro Bay Elementary School, the children of the more affluent people having the peanut butter and jelly.

Sea otters were listed as a threatened species in 1977 due to the risks posed to them by oil spills. Yet, we have seen the sacrifice of one fishery after another, in order to protect sea otters from harm. This makes no sense. It appears to me that Friends of the Sea Otter is engaged in a vendetta against fishermen. But there is much more to it.

Two years go, sea otters entered a “no otter” zone south of Pt. Conception. This zone was negotiated by Friends of the Sea Otter, commercial and recreational fisherman, the state of California, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and Congress. We on the fisheries side thought we were negotiating in good faith.

Recently, after years of frustration and additional lost fishing grounds in Santa Barbara County, the Commercial Fisherman of Santa Barbara, California Abalone Association and California Aquaculture Association sued the Department of the Interior for not living up to agreements they make in regards to federal law PL 99-625. This law made it legal for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to capture and relocate sea otters from San Luis Obispo and Monterey counties to San Nicholas Island in Ventura County. It also required them to protect the commercial and recreational fisheries of the other islands. Since 1993, this has not been done.

A Sept, 11, 1986, article in the Morro Bay Sun-Bulletin cites Mrs. Yeates as saying she felt fishermen should be pleased with the selection of San Nicolas Island. “Otters wandering south will be halted at Pt. Conception. In essence, no sea otter will be found south of that point. It seems then a fair trade-off with the shellfish industry,” she said.

The downside of all of this is that Mrs. Yeates and her organization have been cheerleaders to the Fish and Wildlife Service in recent years, encouraging them to break the law. It’s shameful that fishermen now have to pay for an expensive lawsuit in order to get a federal agency to live up to its commitments and promises.

The Friends of the Sea Otters has also contacted the Interior Department and suggested that other fisheries also threaten sea otters: lobster and crab, live fish, sea urchins and abalone. Eben the lights used by squid boats were identified as threats. Must humans give up all uses of shellfish resources in order to protect otters from oil spills?

Many of the fishermen targeted by AB 2570 have actually participated in efforts to clean up offshore spills, trained by the Fishermen’s Oil Response Team. Some have even received awards for their efforts. Eliminating these fishermen seems shortsighted. Rather than making sea otters safer, it could increase risks should there be additional oil spills.

Friends of the Sea Otter have been blaming fishermen for what appeared to be a decline in the sea otter population. Evidence hasn’t been part of their claims. The otter population was up 1.7 percent last fall and is up 10.5 percent, according to recently published reports.

It appears that Mrs. Yeates  and the Friends will have to find a new scape-goat in their efforts to have sea otters in California declared an “endangered species.”

If we are to have both sea otters and human-use fisheries, we need to strike a balance between preservation of the otters and conservation of shellfish. This only happens if we can trust the environmental community, the government agencies and elected officials.

Steve Rebuck of San Luis Obispo was technical consultant to the “Southern Sea Otter Recovery Team.”

How much money is spent on California and US waterways that could be spent on say…helping out of work Americans?
Did you know that Sea Otters,(that are NOT endangered), just got a $ 25,000,000 bill approved for MORE studies. Right now, we are forcing litigation to stop the lie about Sea Otters. Sea Otters NEVER were endangered! They were listed under “threatened,” the threat coming from the possibility of an oil spill that could threaten their habitat. They were NEVER in any danger of becoming scarce.
THIS IS A MYTH!!!
Sea Otters are doing too well in fact. They have passed the required number of animals allowed to have a sustainable food supply. It is a DOCUMENTED FACT that Sea Otters are starving themselves, due to OVERPOPULATION!!! Just like the Wolves in Yellowstone Park. The US Fish and Wildlife Service still created a new law to allow more Otters…Why? It is a documented FACT that Otters have eaten ALL of the abalone,scallops,clams that are in their “Otter Range.”

The Big Green Machines poster child isn’t the harmless fuzzy little creature they want you to believe, and the truth and the proof of this is now available to the public.

Well the good news is..the White House Office of Science and Technology has announced the new policy to make available the scientific research funded by the Fed. This would mean that you and I could go on the internet and read scientific research results, then watch the peer reviews of this research. This would prompt the private research community to the obligatory transparency required to meet the needs of data to determine any decisions being made in the MLPA process. Full disclosure?…Transparency? Well, maybe.

The bad news is…the back door of the White House is busy with the traffic of Obamas “special appointees” to widen the control of the federal government. Obama has set up EVERY drop of water in this country to be under federal jurisdiction. Do you know how many different entities of government, state and federal, that control the same drop of water? Redundant is an understatement!!!

This is a typical far left Democratic agenda of taking away control from states and building federal control.
There is already too many redundant controls. Occams Razor would apply well right now!!!

I am getting so fed up with hearing people use this statement. The worst on record don’t mean squat!!! The majority of “human record” only goes back a couple of human generations. What is that in geological terms?…not even a blink of an eye.
Mr. envoro…your alarm clock is broken! Or is that just the bells going off in your empty skull! We as a people need to step back and look at history for a moment. What has been the controlling factor of mankind “on record?”…FEAR! Man has spent his existence with the instinct of survival. This is what has kept us alive. Today, we live in a relatively safe environment. Most people can walk around without the fear of something jumping out of the bushes and eating them. However, the instinct is still there. So, some genius comes along and figures that peoples fear can make him money(not a new idea). Remember, one who doesn’t learn from history is doomed to repeat it.
Here is the fact!…science is proof through trial and error. To take a hypothesis and act upon it with repeated experiments to remove doubt and incorporate variables. Todays corporate environmentalist funded science is using pretend experiments. Todays tainted “pay for science” has created it’s own form of science…”JUNK SCIENCE.”
Look at what they are actually saying to you…Be scared for your lives people, the sky is falling, only they can help you, just give them all the money and power and you’ll be saved.
Don’t be fooled by the charlatans, this is just more of the same ‘ol same ‘ol.

Here she goes! As if Jane Lubchenco, the administrator for the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration,doesn’t already have enough to do (having only three months to establish a comprehensive plan for all US waters)… told the House of Representatives Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming that evidence that has come to light since 2004 shows carbon dioxide pollution makes the oceans more acidic as they absorb the gas.
“Carbon dioxide is a plant food, not a pollutant;” says Ian Plimer,professor at the University of Adelaide.
“Human activity only produces three percent of the worlds carbon dioxide emissions each year. Early earth had 1,000 times more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere than now…through five ice ages, yet there was no run away greenhouse effect, tipping points or acid ocean. Even if we burned all the fossil fuels on Earth, the atmospheric carbon-dioxide content would not double.” Pilmer goes on to say that “dissolving CO2 in ocean water has not created acidity. The constant chemical reactions between ocean water and sediments and rocks(limestone), on the sea floor have kept the ocean alkaline. When we run out of rocks, then the ocean might become acidic.”
Jane, your just another tool in the workshop of the out of control, money hungry, hypocritical, “Big Green Propaganda Machine.” You are part of the problem, not the solution.
Stop the lies!!!

Laguna Beach city council members admit…They are ignorant and don’t know the facts. “I haven’t seen any of the science,” says Elisabeth Pearson. She goes on to explain…” I don’t know that we are over fished I don’t know that we need replenishment.” Yet, without knowing the facts, the city has endorsed the six mile closure in Laguna. In a recent article, the council members have heard testimony on issues like water quality(pollution), and sustainability. Yet Ms. Pearson expresses disgust at sport divers actions, like the take of Garibaldi. This is directly due to lack of educating the public.
There is a bigger issue in this closure than a couple of Garibaldi. It is the FACT that North Laguna has become an “Urchin Barren.” Nobody seems to be aware of this except a couple of us Commercial Urchin Divers.
Watch this video…this is from a sport diver,who unknowingly, filmed Shaws Coves’ Urchin Barren. See it for yourself.

I just can’t leave this one alone!!! This is straight out of the Science Daily one of the best examples of “junk science propaganda” on the internet. Do they really think you are that stupid? Maybe we should hire these guys to find Osama Bin Ladden!!!

“Scientists matched the park service data to data provided by SeaWiFs, a satellite monitoring project that photographs and analyzes ocean color for information about ocean life.
“Organic coastal run-off — from fertilizers and sewage overflow — increases the amount of organic material in the near shore ocean. According to the study, differences in the amount of organic material do not have much effect on the delicate food chain of the kelp forest ecosystem. However removal of the fish at the top of the food chain has a profound effect.” Kelp forests are so sensitive,” said Halpern. “If you remove some of the predators, then you can have an effect on the entire kelp forest ecosystem.”
He explained that until now studies of kelp forests looked at either overfishing or increased nutrients. This is the first study to put both variables together to see which is more important.”
Watch this video…it’s from one mile in front of UCSB campus, where this story comes from…

Pro Tem Senator Darrell Steinberg, an employee of the Packard foundation(?), the man who squashed the investigation of private money from the Packard Foundation financing the MLPA allowed by Gov. Schwarzenegger, is disregarding the thousands year old subsistence fishing by some small local tribes of California natives. This MLPA process that claims involving all of the people in the decision making did not even consider these tribes. They were only acknowledged after they showed up to voice themselves. Still this had no importance in the non-science based random cookie cutter mapping for the MPAs. The entire port of Pt.Arena is in jeopardy of collapse. Taking away from what little these folks have left is outrageous. Environmentalists take their lessons from these people who are well known for using mother earth with respect and conservation, yet they now seem to be irrelevant. That is just wrong!

No pun intended!

Boy, the junk science community sure is doing some damage control on this one. How long can they expect the fraud to last? This is what happens when decisions are made based on a null hypothesis. Wikipedia gives an excellent analogy. This has been going on for years now and the guessing that was done is now bitting at their heels. We are going to see more and more exposure of failed scientific “experiments” that you were told was based on absolute facts. I want to know what the percentage is of “junk science for money” to real science from “truth dedicated” individuals. The problem with an experiment on mother nature is… if they are wrong, we are screwed. We really need to stop the greed of this big green machine, it looks like the erosion of lies is giving way to the truth. Then we can get down to business and really help the ocean.

A part of the environmentalists “Big Green Propaganda Machine.”

They present these animals in “circus shows” around the world. You can swim with them, watch them perform tricks…make you feel in touch with them.
They don’t, however, tell you where they got them, or how.