The Pacific Fisheries Management Council have ended their meeting and they chose Option 1, only a two week closure on salmon season in our area (Point Arena to Pigeon Point). Officially it reads:
Point Arena to Pigeon Point (San Francisco)
• April 1-30;
• May 15-October 31 (C.6).
Seven days per week. All salmon except coho, two fish per day (C.1). Chinook minimum size limit of 24 inches total length through
April 30, 20 inches thereafter (B). See gear restrictions and definitions (C.2, C.3).
In 2018, season opens April 7 for all salmon except coho, two fish per day (C.1). Chinook minimum size limit of 24 inches total
length (B); and the same gear restrictions as in 2017 (C.2, C.3). This opening could be modified following Council review at the
March 2018 Council meeting.
Commercial salmon in our area gets August and September, except for August 30 and 31. We sporties got off light. From the sound of things, most of the fish aren't big enough for the commercial fleet, yet. Heck, they aren't big enough for us, even. That'll change slightly in May when our size limit drops to 20" and hopefully changes even more by the summer when the salmon have had a chance to grow larger. Probably not too much larger but every inch counts.
The surfperch catching has picked up in the last week, as has the striper stories. I've heard a few tales of busted-off fish, and supposedly somebody caught a few shorties off of the Sand Point on squid heads yesterday, but my striper test fisherman says no fish. Then he gave me the stink eye. I guess he didn't have fun not catching out there in 25 knots of South wind.
The Dungeness have been getting a bit fewer and skankier as the season wears on. Some of the ones coming in have a lot of barnacles and black spots. They still taste pretty good, though.
8 comments:
Typical b.s. New Sea Angler and the other party boats can go out and catch hundreds of rats while the commercial boats that are masochistic enough to bolt on their gurdies remain tied up. Commercial fishermen are the general publics' main option for enjoying this public resource. Fisheries managers need to be held accountable for allowing this to happen again.
Hate me but googones should eat farm raised tilapia
HA HA - yea Tilapia, the fish of choice for the mindless. I can't believe that garbage is on menu's everywhere.
On a better note we have received a decent salmon season. Make room Willy - I'm on my way!
We can only hope for a wide open 4th of july and some hogs to scrape off the beach.
On a funnier note those restraunts should feed the googones Escolar. To bad the FDA doesnt like complaints about Anal Leakage if you eat more than 4oz. To bad its tasty!!
The googans should eat wild troll caught salmon if they wish to buy it. They have every right to enjoy the same public resource as the idiots that that spend 100k to buy a boat, the idiots that almost die because they forgot their anchor on their broken down old turd, or the idiots that spend 250 a day to fish on the tangler. You own the salmon and the ocean just as much as any googone from the valley. You truly are an idiot ab fish.
These are some of the best comments ever. Dear moderator please don't delete.
Ab fish...stay out of van damne you don't live there those abs belong to the wonderful people of Fort Bragg Mendocino and Albion stay in Sonoma County where you belong
Whatever hope we dont have to hear your crap all season while you sit it out. Idiot like you keep bringing up a break down like i almost died no your not that lucky. Maybe getting wrapped in kelp down 30 anyway if youve been to fort bragg its a small town with a big drinking problem not many locals dive up there anyway. Quit hating its unhealthy for you
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