6.29.10 California Tribes Protest MLPA Science Meeting

California Ocean Protection Process Scapegoats Native Cultures Marine Life Protected Areas Would Allow for Deep Water Drilling yet would Ban Tribal Gathering Eureka, CA - Members of local American Indian Tribes interrupted the Marine Life Protection Act Initiative's Science Advisory Team meeting today demanding that they not be blamed for the decline in ocean fisheries. "We gathered and harvested the ocean's bounty for thousand of years in a sustainable manner. For California to blame Tribes for it's reckless mis-management of our fisheries for the last century is simply appalling," said Frankie Joe Myers, a Yurok ceremonial leader and member of the Coastal Justice Coalition. The Marine Life Protection Act Initiative (MLPAI) is a public and privately funded partnership between the State of California and a hand-full of big money, private foundations, primarily the Resources Legacy Fund, to implement the Marine Life Protection Act (MLPA), which was signed into law in 1999. The MLPA is designed to protect ocean resources, but Tribal spokesmen say that it's an attempt by the Schwarzenegger Administration to greenwash his legacy. Amid chants of "keep your laws off my culture" and "MLPA taking Tribal rights away" the MLPA Science Advisory Team attempted to meet Tuesday, but Tribal activists essentially took over the meeting and demanded an opportunity to speak on the record. For about an hour Native Americans as well as non-native supporters criticized the process and demanded ...



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