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Old 08-28-2015, 05:25 PM   #1
So Cal Shaggy
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Anyone heard of the CCA?

Has anyone heard of the CCA? The CCA (Coastal Conservation Association) is an organization working hard to educate the public on managing our marine resources, and aligning recreational anglers, spearfishermen, and all those who want to MANAGE (and not close!) our resources! They are working to drive science-based decisioning (vs. arbitrary closings). CCA currently has over 200 chapters across 17 states, and is launching the California and Los Angeles chapters this month. Basically they are a group similar to United anglers except they are nation wide with already established chapters, experience and resources to help battle the threats to our ocean uses. They are looking to expand their chapter range here in Ca to not only LA but also they want to create an OC and SD chapters as well but they do not want to only have fishermen they also want divers and anyone else who uses the ocean in a consumptive manner. I have been approached by them to serve on the OC chapter but we need more people interested in helping out creating, organizing and education members in every chapter. Please get the word out to the community, they have yet to find a POC for the SD region and really would like to speak to any group interested. I know this is a task that many if all of us would rather not have to be involved with but we need to organize and create groups like this to safeguard our uses in the ocean. Many threats that may seem to not affect spearos will affect us. The ban on lead ammo for hunting is already starting to spread to sinkers for fishermen and soon all lead which is what dive belts use for weight so even if you can still spear you will not be able to use a weight belt. There is already legislation in the works to ban lead, copper and zinc from the ocean which would be a triple threat to all of us.
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