BILL NUMBER:  AB 571
  VETOED	DATE: 10/12/2009




To the Members of the California State Assembly:

I am returning Assembly Bill 571 without my signature.

This bill would establish a Lobster Management Enhancement Supplement
fee of $300 that commercial lobster fishermen and women would be
required to pay, in addition to their annual lobster permit of $333.
This supplement fee would be used to assist the Department of Fish
and Game (Department) for lobster management activities and would
sunset on March 31, 2015.

In addition to increasing by almost 90 percent the cost of a
commercial lobster permit, thereby potentially driving some permitees
out of the fishery, the bill would also impose new mandates and
obligations upon the Department that still would not be adequately
funded.

For these reasons, I am unable to sign this bill.

Sincerely,



Arnold Schwarzenegger