Game laws are racist
I know I feel safer now
Expensive fishing trip
And guys like these have been killing otters, which feed on abalone.
Poaching. No sympathy. As someone else writes: Very expensive fishing trip. Lucky boat wasn’t seized as well.
Dangerous —
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/the-most-dangerous-game-chasing-a-sea-snail-65897469/
I suspected that they were Asian.
Not that I condone what these guys were doing, but I think the Founding Fathers would slap anyone who could write that sentence with a straight face.
ehh, baloney!
CC
I grew up in SoCal in the 50s. Heard stories about the old days (30s & 40s) when abalones could be had at low tide. Seemed unbelievable since you had to dive to find them by the 60s. Anyway, my college summer job was on an albacore boat. When storms would come up, we’d anchor off of Santa Rosa island. At the time it was a private ranch. We’d take the skiff to a beach and enjoy the day off—and find abalone at low tide. Pretty good eating, but you had to beat them with a tenderizer hammer for a while.