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Ms. Liane Randolph, Chair
California Resources Board, c/o chc2021, 1001 I (eye) Street,
Sacramento, Ca 95814


My wife and I are the owners and operators of two passenger
sportfishing vessels based out of H&M Landing in San Diego, Ca. We
have both worked on many boats for over 37 years and we have
immersed ourselves with the everyday tasks to stay in business in
California.  We have raised two children with a "Fisherman's
Salary" and were successful with putting food on the table, sent
our children to school and have a good upbringing.  Our son Hunter
has been the captain of the Poseidon since the age of 19.  We have
seen some of the best and toughest seasons, but we have always
managed to get by. Sportfishing has been carved into
our family and on our days off we go sportfishing. The Constitution
was re-powered with 2-tier 3 Scania motors, and 2-30kw Onan tier 3
generators 6 years ago. Our vessels are continuously connected to
shore power 8 months out of every year and primarily doing
maintenance. The vessel's generators are turned on for 30 minutes
before every trip and when we board passengers, load bait and
literately spend less then 4 hours in California waters running out
and 3 hours running back on average.  The 7 hours we are in
operation we don't  feel our operation makes any pollution to the
environment of any degree to require machinery that would need to
be replaced.
Our 2 vessels are constructed of fiberglass and wood and to ask us
to rebuild our vessels would cost us $4-5 Million dollars each,
8-15 years to build and with the lack of shipyards, labor and
materials available, it would be impossible to be in business if
the entire fleet needed to get re-powered and rebuild even with
funding from the State and Federal government. We employ 15 hard
working individuals and to ask us to come up with $5 Million
dollars to rebuild our two boats would be impossible. Given the
state of Covid and hardship our family has been put into, we are
happy to keep the 15 Family's, Shipyards, Fish processors, Landing,
Bait Concession,
Fuel Docks, Food Markets, Marine Part Companies, Electronic
companies, CA Fish & Game,  local restaurants and hotels,  all the
marine motor, electrical and air conditioning companies paid year
round.

We are hoping CARB will continue to classify our vessels the same
way commercial, whale watching has been doing it for many years and
to continue to provide motors to the fleet as they become more
reliable and safe for our passengers.

If CARB chooses to require us to rebuild new boats we will no
longer be in business.

Keith Denette
Nicole Denette
Hunter Denette
Poseidon Sportfishing
Constitution Sportfishing