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To whom it may concern.

My boat F/V REEL MAGIC, operating out Bodega Bay, will never
accommodate a Tier 4 engine.  It is a fiberglass, and the motors if
they were available would not fit below the deck.

If you continue your plight to harvest the low hanging fruit
regarding marine emissions here in California, you will put me out
of business.   You will also eliminate my vessel as a portal to the
Sea for the non boat owning public.

There will be more of a "Carbon Expenditure" to replace my vessel
and destroy and dispose of it than the emissions difference between
my current engines and a new Tier 4 engine.

Your whole proposal will result is net carbon debt, 
rather than any sort of emissions reduction.

Why don't you go after gross polluters like the vessels who make up
the Cargo Fleet.   Do they have too strong of a legal defense team
for you to challenge?

The cows in California Pollute a larger volume of CO2 than the CPFV
fleet.

If you vote to approve this, you will be decimating hundreds of
small businesses and families including mine.   Your yes vote will
also be killing the CPFV fleet and the services that we provide to
the California Sportsman, who's access to the natural resources of
the State are protected by the California Constitution.

I urge you to swallow a pill of perspective and common sense and
target something that will really make a difference.

Submitted Respectfully.

Captain
Merlin R. Kolb
F/v REEL MAGIC
REEL MAGIC Sport Fishing
Bodega Bay.