Assm. Wes “The Chezz” Chesbro will be chairing the 39th Annual Fisheries Forum in Sacramento all day tomorrow. The forum, which is a project of the joint Senate-Assembly Committee on Fisheries and Agriculture, will run through a number of panels. There’ll be testimony on ocean science monitoring, aquaculture and the state of play with a number of key species, including salmon and tuna. 

Also, for probably the first time: A whole panel, presumably North Coast-centric, on what the semi-legal clandestine marijuana industry is doing to fisheries. That, friends, is a spicy meatball!

Scott Greacen of Friends of the Eel sends along the following:

From 7-8 pm tonight on KMUD’s Environment Show, I’ll be talking with Mateelians from various angles about the watershed and fisheries impacts of marijuana production. Tomorrow afternoon, I’ll be in the state Capitol, testifying on the same topic before the joint Sen-Assembly Fisheries Forum. I’ll be the sole enviro on that panel.

So a few things: I’m taking anonymous (or otherwise) comments and questions for tonight’s show by email (scott@eelriver.org); listen live wherever you are at kmud.org; call in if you like at 707.923.3911 (gonna be a bit lively I suspect); and light a candle for me or whatever it is you do. Some people are really not going to like this.

KMUD is streaming here. Full agenda for the Fisheries Forum here. The California Channel will be streaming tomorrow’s panel.