What is PG&E thinking???

I really hope that this cant go down this could be really bad for the Central Coast Economy. There is a full conversation going on the http://www.fishreports.net/fishing/messages/93/284.html
Please monitor and make your voice be heard this could be a mess for everyone that lives on the central coast fisherman or not.

This quote was pulled off the site above.

Friends: TAKE A CHAIR BEFORE READING THIS

I told you a couple months ago that a "firestorm" was brewing. Now it has hit the fan with all its fury ... and you are going to be outraged.

PG&E plans to close down all boating/fishing between Monterey Bay and Pt. Conception during September, October, November and December of this year.

They say officially that for 82 days during these four months there will be no fishing OR TRANSIT through a zone from Pt. Sal to Cambria. However, since Morro Bay Harbor and Port San Luis are this only harbors between Pt. Conception and Monterey Bay; and since you cannot transit through the zone, it effectively closes all boating and fishing from Monterey Bay to Pt. Conception.

For some crazy reason, even through they are using one boat to do the seismic studies concerning earthquake fault studies, they want no boats in the entire zone. They will be dividing the zone into two segments for study ... but don't want any boating or fishing in either half for the entire 82-day period.

This means there will be no commercial fishing or recreational fishing for the last 4 months of the year.

THIS ALSO MEANS NO ALBACORE FISHING THIS YEAR!!!!

How does that make you feel???

This will mean a huge financial hit to the City of Morro Bay and to all commercial and recreational fishing. It will be devastating.

We need to mount a huge response to this outrageous behavior. I totally support the need to do this testing, but there is no justification for closing down the entire area to boating and fishing.

Law suits will be mounted to fight this, but we also are going to need to mount a public relations battle against this closure.

I will get back to you later as more info is released.

If you want more details, I will give you the CEQA site to the draft report on this proposal:

Go to www.slc.ca.gov

Then click on the "Information" tab

Next, scroll down the list of items and click on the "CEQA Updates" tab

Next click on "PG&E Central Coastal California Seismic Imaging Project"

That takes you to the document. It is huge, but you can read selected parts to get the drift. This CEQA document was supposed to be "neutral", but it clearly was written by some PG&E staffer. Much of the data used for this study is false to the point of being humerous ...

Anyway, the battle is just beginning.

Will do more reading on this topic.  Thanks for the head up Ryan.

http://www.sanluisobispo.com/2012/03/21/1998362/pge-seismic-mapping-environment.html

Here's another article I found, it mentions a closure for commercial fishing but nothing about recreational fishing.  I don't see how this could go through as presented.