Pillar Point Harbor

Vote out the incumbents! We support Lee Fernandez (D-4) and Kirsten Keith (D-5) for Harbor District.

Vote Lee Fernandez for Harbor District! After 18 years serving as a US Navy and US Air Force Director, managing multimillion dollar budgets, Lee Fernandez has the experience to ensure financially well-managed harbors with a focus on expanding outdoor recreation, invigorating our sustainable seafood industry and protecting our environment. For more information and a list of endorsements please visit Lee's website: https://www.leefernandez.org... Lee's running in District 4: Half Moon Bay, El Granada, Redwood City, San Carlos, Woodside, Emerald Hills, Foster City and Menlo Park.

(CDFW - July 30, 2020) About $18 million in CARES funding was earmarked specifically for fisheries assistance in California. CDFW estimates that there are more than 11,500 potentially eligible applicants for this funding, including individuals who work in the offshore, shoreside, aquaculture, commercial passenger fishing vessel and guide sectors. Eligibility will be based on, among other things, a minimum 35 percent loss of fishing related income due to COVID-19 between Jan. ...1 and June 30, 2020. Applicants must also submit documentation demonstrating active involvement in a qualifying sector. See the approved disbursement plan. https://cdfgnews.wordpress.com//california-fisheries-reli/

While tropical rainforests are the lungs of the planet, the Tongass is the lungs of North America, Dominick DellaSala, chief scientist with the Earth Island Institute’s Wild Heritage project, said in an interview. It’s America’s last climate sanctuary. https://www.washingtonpost.com//trump-tongass-national-fo/

Tom Mattusch is an incumbent candidate in the San Mateo County Harbor District (D-4) election. Please let your friends know that in addition to being an international trophy hunter, he's also a pornographer. In 2017, Mattusch denied distributing pornographic photos. During the investigation, he changed his story and admitted emailing explicit pornographic photos to a woman colleague and 40 others. A few months before running for re-election, he changed his story. Again. Now, ...he claims he’s the victim. Please watch these NBC Bay Area News segments. In Washington, D.C. Mattusch lobbies to increase trophy hunting on six continents. He's past president of the San Francisco Bay Area Chapter of Safari Club International and he's served as a director since 2011. Trophy hunters are motivated by competitions sponsored by trophy hunting organizations. The world’s largest trophy hunting advocacy organization is U.S.-based Safari Club International (SCI) which reportedly has 50,000 members. SCI gives hunting awards in dozens of categories, including the Africa Big Five, for which a hunter must kill an African lion, an African elephant, an African leopard, an African rhino and an African buffalo. Trophy hunters glamorize the killing of animals to demonstrate virility, prowess and dominance. It's a vanity sport for the wealthy: White Rhino hunts cost $55,000 to $150,000 African Elephant hunts cost $11,000 to $70,000 African Buffalo hunts cost $15,000 to $18,500 Tom’s description of killing an African Cape Buffalo: We were finding a good blood trail with bits of bone occasionally. The buffalo made it about two miles before we found it and had our way with it. Thanks, John Ullom Half Moon Bay, CA

(NYT by Kim Tingley) American Dynasty, a commercial trawler, departed Seattle one day in May to fish for hake off the Washington coast. Before leaving, its 122 crew members were screened for the coronavirus using the highly accurate polymerase chain reaction (P.C.R.) method, and all the results came back negative. But because those tests are good but not perfect, in the words of Jesse Bloom, a professor at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Institute in Seattle, they misse...d at least one case: Somehow SARS-CoV-2 found its way on board. When a crew member fell seriously ill, the vessel returned to port, and almost everyone was tested for the virus again. The before-and-after results for 120 of the crew members were made available to Bloom and colleagues, who published a study about them in The Journal of Clinical Microbiology in August. In addition to the P.C.R. tests, the pre-voyage screenings also looked for neutralizing antibodies, or proteins generated by the immune system after exposure to the virus, which suggest that a person has been infected previously. Three crew members, it turned out, had those antibodies at the start of the trip. Of the 117 crew members who did not, 103 tested positive for the virus when they got back to shore an 88 percent infection rate. If you were to randomly select three names from the ship’s manifest, the odds that all three would have tested negative are about 0.2 percent. Yet all three sailors with antibodies were spared. The finding is believed to be the first direct evidence that antibodies protect against SARS-CoV-2 infection in humans, and it offers clues about what sort of concentrations might be needed to confer immunity. The amounts of antibodies present in the three sailors are pretty attainable by the vaccines in development, says Alex Greninger, a virologist at the University of Washington School of Medicine and the study’s senior author. He says that data makes him more optimistic that these vaccines might work. In a commentary on the study, Danny Altmann, a professor of immunology at Imperial College London, called it a remarkable, real-life, human experiment.