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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><u><span
style='font-size:14.0pt'>PRESS RELEASE<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><u><span
style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p><span style='text-decoration:none'> </span></o:p></span></u></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b>Water 4Fish </b><b><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>●</span></b><b> Small Boat Commercial
Salmon Fishermen’s Association</b><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b>Northern
California Federation of Fly Fishers </b><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>●</span></b><b>
Crab Boat Owners Association<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b>American
Sportfishing Association </b><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>●</span></b><b>
Northern California Federation of Fly Fishers<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b>Pacific Coast
Federation of Fishermen’s Associations </b><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>●</span></b><b>
Salmon Aid Foundation<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b> California
Sportfishing Protection Alliance </b><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>●</span></b><b>
California Striped Bass Association </b><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>●</span></b><b>
Fish Sniffer Magazine <o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: August 13, 2009<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>CONTACT: Dick Pool (925) 963-6350 <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>
Robert Johnson (925) 580-4480<o:p></o:p></p>
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Mike Hudson (510) 407-2000<o:p></o:p></p>
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Zeke Grader (415) 606-5140<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span
style='font-size:16.0pt'>Congressman George Miller Thanked For Protecting
Fishing and Farming Jobs<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>Sustainable Farms and
Fisheries Critical for Nation’s Food Security, Economy<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><i><span
style='font-size:14.0pt'>Say Fishing Leaders Praising Miller’s Leadership<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><i><span
style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b>Concord, CA – Leaders from California’s recreational and commercial
fishing fleets met this morning at U.S. Representative George Miller’s Concord
field office to praise the Northern California Congressman’s three plus decades
of work to protect fishery resources and sustainable farm lands and the jobs,
food production and economic benefit they represent. </b><b><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b>“No one in America has worked harder on behalf of those
who toil in the fields or at sea - those who bring to the tables of the nation
the bounty of our lands and waters – than Congressman George Miller,” said Zeke
Grader, Executive Director of the Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen’s
Associations representing working men and women in the West Coast commercial
fishing fleet. “We felt it was time to express our gratitude during a time when
America’s oldest industry –fishing – and the very fish it relies on are under
attack.”<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b>Miller, who was past chairman of the old House Interior
Committee and currently a member of the House Resources Committee has
championed sustainable food production, including the protection of the
nation’s fish and the jobs they represent, along with fair wages for labor
working in fish processing plants in the U.S. and its territories. <o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b>“Today we offer a special thanks to Congressman George Miller
for his three decades of leadership on California water and environmental
issues. He has worked tirelessly to see that we <o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b>have clean water, a healthy delta and water policies that
will ensure future supplies for all sectors <o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b>of the economy. We support George 100 percent in
his continuing efforts to enact these <o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b>policies,” said Dick Pool, a fishing gear manufacturer,
board member of the American Sportfishing Association and leader of the
Water4fish campaign. <o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b>Pool continued, saying “the salmon industry is one of the
leading food and economic producers in the state. Yet, there are many who
advocate that the salmon are unworthy of having the water and conditions they
need to survive and prosper. We beg to differ. A new economic study
shows that the state is already losing $1.4 billion annually and 23,000 jobs
because the salmon industry is shut down for lack of the water and habitat
these fish need to survive. If the salmon industry is brought back to
full production, 94,000 new jobs will be created and $5.6 billion of economic
benefit will accrue to the state. We know of no other food sector that
can match this opportunity without severe environmental damage. ”<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b>Mike Hudson is the President of the Small Boat Commercial
Salmon Fishermen's Association, representing the interests of small family
owned fishing businesses along the California Coast, and is Executive Director
of the SalmonAid Foundation, uniting commercial, recreational and tribal
fishermen with environmental organizations, chefs and the American consumer.<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b>"Salmon are a renewable resource - just add
water!" Hudson added to Pool’s comments. “Okay, it's not quite as
simple as that, but it's the first step we must take in order to recover
our thriving salmon populations - put water back in our rivers and the
salmon will rebound. We<span style='color:black'> have all supported the
fishing closures over the last 2 years, and suffered massive economic
deprivation to do our part to save the salmon and hopefully some day our own
way of life - but without water in our rivers, our sacrifice may have been for
naught."</span><o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b>Dr.
Mark Rockwell, who is a member of the Northern California Council of Fly
Fishers and the Endangered Species Coalition, stated <span style='color:black'>"the
Salmon fishery has been closed for the past two years because of imbalances in
the way we have managed water. The Endangered Species Act (ESA) is
America's most popular environmental law, with more than 89 percent of
Americans favorable to it. It is designed to guide us in our land and
water use actions so we don't cause extinction to fish or wildlife,” said
Rockwell. “Our salmon fisheries are close to extinction today, and it is
all of our responsibility to take the actions necessary to recovery them."</span><o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span
style='color:black'>Congressman Miller has been stalwart standing up for the nation’s
environmental laws that are essential to the protection of the nation’s waters,
its fish and farmlands, including the Endangered Species Act, the Clean Water
Act and the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation & Management Act. Those
natural resource laws in turn protect fishing and farming jobs and the food
production, economies and enjoyment they represent, according to the fishing
groups.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b>Gary
R. Adams, who is Vice President of the California Striped Bass Association
State Board, <span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b>said,
“how soon we forget the true meaning of Public Trust doctrine found in our
constitution. It is George Miller that has epitomized the very essence
that all of our fisheries and citizens must have adequate clean water to
survive and thrive,” said Adams. “It is he that understands that when a
fishermen fishes for fish, that it is much more than the fish he seeks.
It is a piece of heritage that extends beyond the first time that man broke the
soil with a plough.” <o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>"</span>Salmon
is the best food,” said community organizer and active Delta recreational
fisherman Robert Johnson, Jr. “Ultimately salmon are about people and they rely
on healthy water flows and when in trouble, the Endangered Species Act.
Congressman Miller has long recognized that and we thank him today for his
great leadership.”<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b>Attention Press:</b> Fishing groups that have
signed on to this press release will be available for interviews at Congressman
George Miller’s Concord office. The groups will be outside the office at
0900 on 13 August 2009. Congressman Miller’s Office is located at 1333
Willow Pass Road, Suite 203, Concord, CA 94520.<o:p></o:p></p>
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