Alarming Comments from CA Fish and Game Commission President Samantha Murray Causes Uproar in Fishing Community.
Article 1, Section 25 of our state constitution has said since 1910 that we have a right to fish. It is clear it is a conditional, not absolute, right because things like bag limits, seasons, other rules limit this right. But it is indeed a right, not a privilege.
For the President of our fish and game commission to have this opinion, and the power to decide how best to allow or take away our “privilege" is frightening.
Full video below. Excerpt from comments beginning at 1:13:03 and comment made by Samantha Murray at 1:23:14.
President Murray showed an obvious bias towards creating more "Kelp related" MPA closures as shown in a second excerpt below.
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