Caring For Our Veterans Through Sports Rehab!
Monterey Bay Veterans Inc., “
Our services include
sports fishing, scuba diving, boating safety courses, scattering of ashes
(with honors), sightseeing, and marine environmental education.
Monterey Bay Veterans, Inc. hosts two sports fishing
events annually. The Wheelchair Salmon Fishing Derby and the Wheelchair
Rock Cod Fishing Derby brings fun and excitement to our deserved
Veterans. We have been hosting these major events for over 20 years!
Participants come from all areas of the state and country. They come to
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Another service we provide is “the physically challenged assistance program” which is designed to make outdoor recreational venues wheelchair accessible. Venues where we provide this service are Mazda Laguna Seca raceway, Monterey Jazz Festival, The Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance, California International Air Show, Spirit West Coast, The AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am and First Tee Open Golf Tournament. Our program provides transportation in and around these venues, as well as to parking lots. Monterey Bay Veterans, Inc. provides special wheelchair accessible carts, shuttles, and vans that are capable of transporting wheelchairs and several passengers. In addition, we customize and provide assistance to the physically challenged for outdoor recreational venues.
We would like to extend our most heartfelt thanks to the men and women who are now serving in the Iraq war, and to all Veterans who have served our Nation.
21st Annual Wheelchair Fishing Derby Still On As Planned - April 26, 2008!
The recent Salmon closure along the California coast and most of Oregon will not affect the 21st Annual Wheelchair Fishing Derby. This major event will still be scheduled for April 26, 2008!
Everything which was planned for the event will still take place. However, participants will not be fishing for Salmon this year.
Please see the story below regarding the closure.
Scarcity of Salmon Ends Early Season
By Mike Taugher
Media News
Early season salmon fishing off the coasts of California and most of Oregon was shut down Wednesday by federal regulators responding to an unprecedented collapse of salmon populations along the West Coast.
The actions affect commercial and recreational fishing seasons under way or scheduled to open in the coming weeks. When they meet again next month, regulators are likely to close the bigger fishing seasons that come later in the year.
A small recreational fishing season off Fort Bragg that opened in mid-February will close April 1. Other recreational fishing seasons from San Francisco to the Mexican border that were scheduled to open April 5 have been closed.
Commercial fishing scheduled to open off Fort Bragg on April 7 was closed.
In Oregon, the start of recreational and commercial seasons that were set to open Saturday were delayed to April 15, but it appears likely the seasons will be closed when the Pacific Fishery Management Council meets in early April.
The actions were in response to major declines in salmon populations that were especially pronounced in California's Sacramento River fall run of chinook salmon, which produce more than 80 percent of the salmon caught off the California coast.
Last year's return of spawning adults was less than 90,000, the second lowest figure on record. Worse, the number of returning two-year-olds — a key predictor of the 2008 return — was a record low, meaning this year is likely to be much worse.
On Tuesday, scientists informed the council that even without any salmon fishing, the return of Sacramento River fall run was expected to be fewer than 60,000, or less than half of the minimum target set by regulations.
"There's not going to be any fisheries this year that have any impacts on the Central Valley run," said Duncan MacLean, a commercial salmon fisherman from Half Moon Bay and the industry's California representative to the council.
"I'm totally disgusted," he said. "I am sick and tired of putting myself and my family through this."
Agency scientists for the most part blamed a shift in ocean conditions along the West Coast for the problems.
But others, including the head of the fishery management council, contend the shift can't account for the severity of the problem with Sacramento River salmon.
MacLean and other anglers blame the problem instead on water management in the Delta and throughout the Central Valley.
"This is like going to debtors prison for your father's sins," MacLean said. "This is working it's way up the food chain. It started with the Delta smelt (which appears to be close to extinction) and it's working it's way up."
American Legion State and National Comman-ders Visit Monterey Bay Veterans, Inc.
Monterey Bay Veterans, Inc. would like to gratefully acknow-ledge a recent visit to our facility by the American Legion State and National Commanders.
(Pictured from left to right below)~Howard Darter - American Legion State Commander.
~John Whitacre - Executive Director MBV, Inc.
~Martin "Marty" Conatser - American Legion National Commander.
