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<div class="yiv9810950772MsoNormal"><span style="">Please see below for a press release from Assemblyman Chesbro and a related article from the Santa Rosa Press Democrat.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;">Assemblymember Wesley Chesbro</span></b></div>
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<i><span style="font-size:13.0pt;">Chair, Assembly Natural Resources Committee</span></i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;"></span></div>
<div class="yiv9810950772MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:5.0pt;"><span style="">FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE</span></div>
<div class="yiv9810950772MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:16.0pt;"><span style="">September 29, 2014</span></div>
<div class="yiv9810950772MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:30.0pt;"><span style="">Contact: Andrew Bird, Communications Director, (916) 319-2002</span></div>
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<span style="font-size:14.0pt;">Gov signs Chesbro bill to protect fisheries from genetically modified ‘frankenfish’
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<div class="yiv9810950772MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;line-height:150%;"><span style="">SACRAMENTO – Gov. Jerry Brown has signed a bill by
<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://asmdc.org/members/a02/">Assemblymember Wesley Chesbro</a> (D-North Coast) that protects California’s native salmon and steelhead by banning the commercial production of genetically altered, or “transgenic,” non-native salmon.
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<div class="yiv9810950772MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;line-height:150%;"><span style="">“I thank Governor Brown for understanding the importance of protecting California wild salmon and steelhead from the threat of transgenic modification,”
Chesbro said. “The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is currently reviewing an application by a company that seeks to produce a farmed salmon in the United States that has been genetically altered to grow faster than native salmon. If these ‘frankenfish’ were
to escape into our waters, they could destroy our native salmonid populations through interbreeding, competition for food and the introduction of parasites and disease. The only way to ensure this never happens is to ban commercial hatchery production, cultivation
or stocking of transgenic salmonids in California.”</span></div>
<div class="yiv9810950772MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;line-height:150%;"><span style="">Specifically, AB 504:<span style="color:black;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="">Codifies the regulatory definition of “transgenic.”</span></li><li class="yiv9810950772MsoNormal" style="color:black;margin-bottom:12.0pt;line-height:150%;">
<span style="">Extends the prohibition of spawning, incubation, or cultivation of transgenic salmonids in the Pacific Ocean to all waters of the state. The hatchery production and stocking of transgenic salmonids would be expressly
prohibited. </span></li><li class="yiv9810950772MsoNormal" style="color:black;margin-bottom:12.0pt;line-height:150%;">
<span style="">Prohibits research or experimentation for the commercial production of transgenic salmonids.</span></li><li class="yiv9810950772MsoNormal" style="color:black;margin-bottom:12.0pt;line-height:150%;">
<span style="">Authorizes the Department of Fish and Wildlife (DFW) to issue a specified permit for medical or scientific research conducted on transgenic finfish species by accredited California academic institutions or private
entities for <u>research only and not for commercial production.</u> DFW is required to notify the Legislature’s Joint Committee on Fisheries and Aquaculture and the California Fish and Game Commission upon receipt of a specified permit application at least
30 days prior to the approval or disapproval of the permit.</span></li><li class="yiv9810950772MsoNormal" style="color:black;margin-bottom:12.0pt;line-height:150%;">
<span style="">Requires that any research activities be conducted in a closed system that has eliminated the risk of escape of transgenic fish species and any potential disease they may transmit. It also requires a permit application
to include a research plan specifying the objectives and goals of the proposed research.</span></li></ul>
<div class="yiv9810950772MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;line-height:150%;"><span style="color:black;">AB 504 also contains language extending the current law regulating sea cucumber fishing permits, which was due to expire in 2015, to
2020.</span></div>
<div class="yiv9810950772MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;line-height:150%;"><span style="color:black;">“As chair of the Legislature’s Joint Committee on Fisheries and Aquaculture since 2010, every year I have authored an ‘omnibus’ bill
to protect California fisheries and enhance commercial and sport fishing in the state,” Chesbro said. “The idea for this year’s bill – to protect our irreplaceable salmon and steelhead fisheries – came out of the annual Fisheries Forum that the Joint Committee
hosted at the Capitol earlier this year. Over the past four decades, this Forum has produced a number of pieces of legislation that have proven to be vital to California’s fisheries. I hosted my last forum in April and this will be my last fisheries bill.
It has been an honor and a privilege to work with fishermen and women, organizations dedicated to protecting the state’s fisheries and Native American tribes in the effort to restore and protect this important California resource.”</span></div>
<div class="yiv9810950772MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;line-height:150%;"><span style="color:black;">AB 504 was sponsored by Pacific Coast Federation of Fisherman’s Associations and supported by California Aquaculture Association, CalTrout,
Golden Gate Salmon Association, Natural Resources Defense Council, Northcoast Environmental Center, Ocean Conservancy, Sierra Club California and the Southern California Trawlers Association.</span></div>
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<h1>Governor signs bill banning commercial production of genetically modified salmon
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<div class="yiv9810950772MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;"><span style=""><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/2901588-181/governor-signs-bill-banning-commercial">http://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/2901588-181/governor-signs-bill-banning-commercial</a></span></div>
<div class="yiv9810950772MsoNormal"><span style="">BY DEREK MOORE THE PRESS DEMOCRAT</span></div>
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<div class="yiv9810950772MsoNormal"><span style="">Gov. Jerry Brown signed a North Coast lawmaker’s bill banning the commercial production of genetically altered salmon.
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<div class="yiv9810950772MsoNormal"><span style="">AB 504, authored by Assemblyman Wes Chesbro, D-Arcata, extends the prohibition of spawning or cultivating so-called “transgenic salmonids” in the Pacific Ocean to all waters of the state. The
hatchery production and stocking of such fish also is prohibited. </span></div>
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<div class="yiv9810950772MsoNormal"><span style="">The legislation protects the state’s native steelhead trout and salmon populations, Chesbro said. He noted that federal food and drug regulators are reviewing an application by a company, AquaBounty
Technologies, that seeks to raise genetically altered salmon in the United States.
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<div class="yiv9810950772MsoNormal"><span style="">“If these ‘frankenfish’ were to escape into our waters, they could destroy our native salmonid populations through interbreeding, competition for food and the introduction of parasites and
disease,” Chesbro stated in a news release. “The only way to ensure this never happens is to ban commercial hatchery production, cultivation or stocking of transgenic salmonids in California.”
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<div class="yiv9810950772MsoNormal"><span style="">The legislation prohibits research or experimentation for the commercial production of genetically-altered salmonids.
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<div class="yiv9810950772MsoNormal"><span style="">The bill was sponsored by the Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen’s Associations.</span></div>
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