Thanks Marcus

So as is becoming the norm now - a private group uses lawsuits to badger DFG in to regulation changes that serve an agenda unrelated to the actual management of the environment.

Ironic that agriculture is now using the exact strategy invented by the Center for Biological Diversity! But not unsurprising, since the CBD brags openly about their strategy.

This pisses me off.

Marcus – do you figure the only real solution to this is for the state legislature to make it against the law for private groups to sue the state’s environmental management agencies like DFG in an effort to make them enforce laws in a certain way?

I mean, why the hell should a private group be able to sue the government to manipulate the way government enforces a law? I can’t sue the Highway Patrol if I feel like rolling through stop signs should be allowed.

DFG should set the environmental law for the state. They’re the experts. They have the biologists on staff. They’re supposed to be unbiased (whether they are or not in reality is another thing, but it’s their job to be unbiased).

Why should the law allow for these scenarios where DFG is used as a proxy for private interests? It’s crap. It makes it so that groups with money and lawyers can very strongly influence how our fish are managed. People who have never been to the Delta and know nothing about fish now get to have a say in how it’s managed. Hogwash.

We need to expose what is really going on here and educate the angling public. Most people are so confused about what is going on. Grrrrr