Issue Position: Natural Resources

Issue Position

I consider myself a conservationist and not an environmentalist. We must use sound science to balance our effects on the natural world and to conserve our natural resources for future generations. I maintain decisions about conservation and protection of natural resources should be based on sound science. The appropriate boards and commissions of experts should be making these decisions and not members of the state legislature.

Based on the testimony of state and national experts at the January 14, 2010 legislative hearing on H.B. 796, there is no need to ban commercial fishing of striped bass, nor is there a need to reduce the recreational catch limits at this time. The commercial and recreational fisheries can and should coexist.

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