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The need for addressing climate change is more compelling than
ever.  The need to address air pollution is a continuing endeavor
that must be sustained.  However, the cure must not be worse than
the disease.
As I understand the proposed regulation changes to the ocean-going
vessels, it seems that many severe financial impacts will occur
that will affect a broad swath of industries associated with
fishing and boating.  Putting such draconian measures into place
will likely cripple the fishing industry for years to come.  This
will put many people out of work including not only commercial and
sport fishing boat crews but the ancillary businesses that support
them.  The boat manufacturing business will also be heavily
impacted with similar results.  Lastly, let us not forget that each
of these industries and all the people working within these
industries provide tax revenues for the state, counties, and
cities.  
Each of the individuals share your goal to solve the crises before
us.  Work with them, they may have solutions that can be
implemented more readily and will lessen the burden of the
implementation of the changes instituted to combat pollution and
climate change.  Take advantage of low hanging fruit, put into
place changes that are simple cheap and effective now and work with
the industries to quickly develop more substantial changes in the
future.
For the last nine months I have been recovering from an injury that
has kept me from being able to go fishing.  I was looking forward
to catching some tuna out of the H&M Landing fleet in San Diego,
but the injury prevented me from that.  Now, I am looking forward
to going out fishing out of Marina Del Rey on a boat named the
Betty-O.  I plan on going out on October 23, 2021, and I intend to
listen to the USC Notre Dame football game on the radio just like I
did when I was 15 years old, 50 years ago.  Let's keep the boating
and fishing industry alive so we can all create memories to look
back on.

Sincerely
Mark Duran