Friday, December 8, 2017

    Here's a reminder that those of you with abalone cards this year had better remember to send them in or file online on time, or they won't sell you an ab card next year. Oh, wait...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - December 8, 2017  

California Recreational Abalone Fishery to be Closed in 2018

abalone and urchins
Red abalone and urchins
CDFW photo by A. Maguire
The California Fish and Game Commission yesterday voted to close the 2018 northern California recreational abalone fishery due to ongoing environmental conditions that have significantly impacted the abalone resource. The closure affects next year's recreational abalone season, which was scheduled to open on April 1, 2018.
 
The Commission's 4-0 decision (Commissioner Jacque Hostler-Carmesin was absent) upholds the policies of the Abalone Recovery and Management Plan, which was adopted by the Commission in December 2005. Over the past several years, the Commission has taken several actions to reduce take and shorten the season to protect abalone from the unprecedented environmental conditions.
 
The Commission directed the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) to work with stakeholders to deliver a new fishery management plan that includes guidance on navigating these unprecedented conditions. The Commission also directed CDFW to consider how the new fishery management plan can inform the potential re-opening of some fishing opportunity for the 2019 season.
 
More information about California's recreational abalone fisheries can be found on the CDFW website.
 
Oh well....Guess I should've got wet this year.
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14 comments:

  1. BDecember 8, 2017 at 7:28 PM

    I'll bet $100 it won't reopen in most of our lifetimes...

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  2. Willy VoglerDecember 8, 2017 at 8:32 PM

    I won't take that bet

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  3. ab fishDecember 9, 2017 at 7:03 PM

    Oregon 1 per day 5 per year gonna make the trip this year. At least a meal or 2.

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  4. Captain RonDecember 10, 2017 at 8:12 AM

    Poaching is the number one threat to our Abalone resource and none of these new actions addresses any of that fish and game needs to get off their lazy asses and get out there at night and find the poaching rings

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  5. ab fishDecember 10, 2017 at 6:17 PM

    I bet we get a season like oregon in 2019

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  6. UnknownDecember 11, 2017 at 9:19 AM

    Yay!

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  7. rokefinDecember 11, 2017 at 12:32 PM

    I don't really think it is laziness of the F and G, I have complete respect for any authority that has to deal with the public on a daily basis. I do think if they would just enforce the max penalties, confiscate boats, vehicles, and lifetime ban of fishing and hunting licenses people may stop breaking the laws. We must also police ourselves and fishing partners and report any suspicious activities we see.

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  8. ab fishDecember 11, 2017 at 1:32 PM

    Amen lock them up and throw away the key. Fishing and diving are my family traditions this feels worse than cancelling christmas or 4th of july. Somebody tell trump we need a wall along our coast

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  9. ab fishDecember 11, 2017 at 5:02 PM

    How about the googones that had 2 be rescued sunday. They flipped their canoe off the head. We were suprised to see the stiff south wind. Anyway 22 crab in 5 pots on a 3 day soak. Rebaited and got 8 more to make our limits on a 4 hour soak

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    1. UnknownDecember 11, 2017 at 9:49 PM

      Yeah it was a little windy out front yesterday but the further north we ran the better the weather got. Ran to Salt Point for 3 limits of lings and an assortment of rockfish. 21 crab in 8 pots on a 24hr soak. Didn't hear about the canoe but it doesn't surprise me.

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  10. stokerDecember 13, 2017 at 4:11 PM

    kinda sad after 45 years for me,i would be shocked if I ever get to pop another one!bring on the wall!

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  11. ab fishDecember 13, 2017 at 5:23 PM

    We need to get some of the dive companies to sponsor an urchin derby. Just like they used to have when they did the chocolate abalone dive in Monterey until some enviro nazi complained cause 2 chocolate abalone weren't recovered and thus plastic was left in the water. That used to be so much fun. Diving the same beach as 500 other divers was pretty crazy!

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  12. Captain RonDecember 17, 2017 at 7:46 PM

    Roke fin they are lazy... they find it easier to sit at a boat ramp and write tickets for technicalities or set up roadblocks on Highway 20 writing imtickets for people transporting Abalone outside of the shell that is not the problem the problem is organized crime gangs from San Francisco because abalone
    Is bringing $200 to $500 a piece... they don't have fishing licenses they don't care about what you confiscate they'll just buy more in the morning they are criminals and they are going out at night and they are stealing Abalone from the ocean and selling them to restaurants in the Bay Area and fish and game is not going to find those criminals at the boat ramp or on Highway 20

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