BILL ANALYSIS
AB 849
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ASSEMBLY THIRD READING
AB 849 (Berg)
As Introduced February 18, 2005
Majority vote
WATER, PARKS & WILDLIFE 13-0
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|Ayes:|Wolk, Villines, Baca, | | |
| |Berg, Berm?dez, Daucher, | | |
| |Emmerson, Matthews, Maze, | | |
| |Parra, Pavley, Sharon | | |
| |Runner, Salda?a | | |
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SUMMARY : Encourages collaborative research management between
fishing men and women and the state. Specifically, this bill :
1)Establishes state policy to facilitate collaboration between
fishing men and women and scientists and researchers at the
Department of Fish and Game.
2)Makes legislative findings as to the importance of utilizing
the knowledge of marine fishing men and women in researching
and managing ocean resources nationwide.
FISCAL EFFECT : None
COMMENTS : A Pew Ocean Commission report and President Bush's
United States Ocean Action Plan stress the importance of
comprehensive, centralized research and data management programs
for ocean ecosystems. This bill promotes comprehensive ocean
research by establishing state policy to collaborate on fishery
research with fishing men and women.
As an example of effective collaborative research management,
the author offers the Gulf of Maine, where lobstermen and others
work side-by-side with agency managers and university
researchers gathering data and entering it into widely
accessible database systems. The researchers have found the
fishermen's "native knowledge" to be critical to strengthening
fisheries management programs.
AB 849
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Analysis Prepared by : Alf W. Brandt / W., P. & W. / (916)
319-2096
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