11 09 2009 Seaweed Rebellion North Coast MLPA Resources Welcome to the Seaweed Rebellion North Coast MLPA Resources Web Portal. Links are mostly in chronological order with most recent at top. There are local & external website links to pages that are HTML and dated where possible. Most PDF links go to PDF files hosted on this site. There are also Fin and Shellfish Fisheries sites, Seaweed sites, blogs, Senate Member sites, audio Mp3, and C-SPAN links. List will be updated often. Of course there are California Department of Fish and Game resources also: Existing Marine Protected Areas in California: Regulations MLPA Document Archives  from DFG Enhanced Wildlife, Biodiversity, Eco-tourism, and Development are coming and the MLPA is part of it. Eco-tourism  HTML news article on IndyBay Eco-Tourism, Fisheries Fascism, and Indigenous Indifference   54 kb PDF Collapse of Wild Capture Fisheries Imminent Due To MLPA Initiative Entropy Coefficient of Protein Transfer In Aquaculture 102709 Fishing Down The Food Web to Reduction Fisheries: The MLPA Initiative Entropy Coefficient  HTML page on IndyBay Fishing Down The Food Web to Reduction Fisheries: The MLPA Initiative Entropy Coefficient  48 kb PDF Like the painful death of Jane 'Bluechenko' the Blue Whale,  Killed By A NOAA Contract Boat  near Fort Bragg 102309 Inconvenient as Truth: MAXXAM's Blue Legacy  HTML Inconvenient As Truth: MAXXAM's Blue Legacy  48 kb PDF Listen to (Sonoma County) Kashia Tribal Chairman Lester Pinola's comments on the MLPA-I at the Commission Hearing 080509, wherein the tribe currently faces loss of traditional access and areas due to closures under the Big Green supported BRTF proposed Integrated Preferred Alternative, and the day's subsequent vote of the Commission. (less than 2 min 400kb mp3) Open The Coast And the Fish and Game Commission response that closed Stewards Point and Point Arena Sea Lion Cove: Our Job State Attorney gives informal opinion 092509, discussions follow for weeks, not much is said. C-SPAN  Click on Oct 1st 2009 link. Dedicated Since 1994 to the fight against abalone poaching and supporting the preservation and conservation of the California Abalone. Sonoma County Abalone Network Important Resources on Everything MLPA, at the California Fisheries Coalition (CFC) website! Reference Documents For Download The MLPA is on the North Coast, the south Coast is in Revolt, and carefully courting the BRTF. http://californiafisheriescoalition.blogspot.com/2009_10_01_archive.html California Fisheries Coalition Blog Archive for Sept 2009 a concert in Albion, Protests in Eureka. http://californiafisheriescoalition.blogspot.com/2009_09_01_archive.html California Fisheries Coalition Blog Archive for August 2009 a key month for the Mendocino Coast. http://californiafisheriescoalition.blogspot.com/2009_08_01_archive.html MLPA: More Likely to Promote Aquaculture - Kelp as Feedstock for Abalone http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/10/02/18624167.php  (IndyBay News Article) Ecosystem Based Management and integrated-Marine Spatial Planning EBM i-MSP  44 kb PDF Fisheries Fascism, Indigenous Indifference, Eco-Tourism, Mariculture: Privatization by Preservation Privatization By Preservation: Fisheries Fascism  44 kb PDF New Limits on Pesticide Uses Will Protect Salmon  50 kb PDF 092809 Effective 2010, battle has been going on 10 years - Klamath Siskiyou Wildlands Center. Dr. John Mick Seidl, Barry Munitz, history of involvemnt, Nature Conservancy, Costa Rica, ENRON, MAXXAM, UC Regents, Pacific Lumber, The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, the idea behind the Resources Legacy Fund Foundation (RLFF). Munitz and Seidl  40 kb PDF 091409 Assmbly Member Pedro Nava 35th District, Chair Banking and Finance, Stauch Opponent of PXP, and Offshore Oil, LNG Pedro Nava JOIN THE SEAWEED REBELLION - NEW OIL EXTRACTION IS NOT AN OPTION  (IndyBay News Article) Link below is to file in PDF format JOIN THE SEAWEED REBELLION - NEW OIL EXTRACTION IS NOT AN OPTION  62 kb PDF 090109 City of Carpinteria faces off with Venoco Oil for the ballot. http://ballotpedia.org/wiki/index.php/Carpinteria_Oil_Drilling_Initiative,_2009 The Ocean Conservancy and Sierra Club Supported offshore drilling at Tranquillon Ridge 012609 EDF Press release; TOC actively promotes the most stringent MLPA-Initiative proposals and attends every Commission hearing along with NRDC. Big Green, Blue Ocean Politics  130 kb PDF also see  When BIG Green Isn't Enough - Go For The Gold, Black Gold  (IndyBay News Article). Tranquillon Ridge, Santa Barbara - from Waning Green Support to Budget Woes Tranquillon Ridge  65 kb PDF Revolving Doors And Rubber Stamp Commission Report The RDARS Report 2009  60 kb PDF California Coast Makeover Licensing and Privatization Act The Back Door To Oil - Onshore Facilities  88 kb PDF Fish Unlimited: Smells Like Fishy Fascism, at the 080509 Commission MAXXAM the MLPA, and Fish Unlimited  188 kb PDF Less than 3 weeks after  John Lewallen and Babs-Stephens-Lewallen,  put together the  Fisheries Reality Tour,  in Point Arena this colorful brochure of the North Coast Seaweed Rebellion was created for the July 4th parade in Mendocino. Download it below. Join The Seaweed Rebellion  330 kb PDF (web version) Join The Seaweed Rebellion  1.2 MB PDF (original) MPA's don't protect marine resources from pollution, or oil exploration and drilling by deviated drilling, or horizontal drilling, or directional drilling, seabed development, aquaculture, industrialization of coastal waters, CONSERVATION LEASING AND OWNERSHIP OF MARINE RIGHTS, the lease of state water bottoms or the water column to any person for aquaculture (including, but not limited to marine finfish aquaculture), naval operations and militarization, floating airports, floating real estate, or noise, just food gathering. Join the Seaweed Rebellion and help STOP the MLPA-Initiative in the Legislature. Support your local Kelp Harvester and Native Rights. Join local Seaweed Rebels in Northern California Tomas DiFiore Seaweed Rebellion Astral Arts Mendocino Commercial, Subsistence Seaweed Harvester Astral Arts Mendocino registered as a Mendocino County business in the Spring of 2003. All artwork, media, audio, video, projet series names and individual titles are Copyright Protected ©2003 ©2004 ©2005 ©2006 ©2007 ©2008 ©2009 Author: Thomas DiFiore. All business logos and product line artwork, are marks with specific fonts used in the identification of goods or services as used in commerce, and are trademarks of the author or Astral Arts Mendocino.