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When I get on sportboats it is my intention to fish in order  to
bring home  catch for myself and family.  It has also been a way of
life, the act of fishing. Without sportboats where I spend about 
50 percent of my fishing time I would not be able to enjoy catching
the grade of  fish that is possible local to where I live.  I would
need to go out of state to Oregon or towards Baja Mexico to enjoy
similar catch. 

Sadly, it seems that the CARB restrictions are not allowing for
feasible measures or reasonable time lines for many sportboats
operations to come into compliance without drastically putting the
owners at huge financial risk with the new measures in place. This
would mean many , nearly 90 percent of sport boat operations would
go out of business in CA causing loss of many jobs and the domino
effect of the other industries tied to sport fishing industry to
decline. 

While I am nature and earth lover, I really feel additional
assistance to keeping sport boats in business while also  keeping
up with greater emissions standards is necessary for well being of
the planet.  Therefore,  are there better ways to preserve sport
boats staying in business while also improving emissions standards?
If the current carb emissions will result in the closure of many
sport boat operations then I think the measures need to be
reassessed. 

Please help sportboats improve emissions standards while also
staying in business.