Posted on 12/20/2017 10:12:19 AM PST by nickcarraway
San Jose residents are being asked to keep an eye out for people setting illegal fish traps in local waterways after city workers and South Bay Clean Creeks Coalition volunteers recently broke up several found in the Guadalupe River.
The traps were discovered about two weeks ago under the Julian Street bridge and farther south near Virginia and Willow streets. The fish traps are built out of large items like river rock, which block the stream so fish become penned into a shallow pool of water away from their migratory path. That makes it easy for poachers to nab the fish from the stream. It can also interfere with wildlife research and fish repopulation efforts such as those supported by the coalition.
All of the structures were promptly removed by coalition volunteers and the San Jose Conservation Corps, but coalition founder Steve Holmes told the Resident it wasn’t the first time they’ve appeared. Several illegal traps were also found last month, and they’ve been discovered in the same areas stretching back at least several years.
“We’d seen crude traps along the waterways when they were made out of nets or barriers of shopping carts,” Holmes said.
Fish trapping is always problematic for game wardens and other wildlife professionals, and the new traps are even more sophisticated.
“One on Virginia Street…that one was really kind of well-designed. You had these low walls that allowed the fish to jump over, but there’s no stream,” he said. “There’s a wall and water seeping through it but no direction to follow. They become disoriented. People just come in and poach the fish.”
Holmes said there’s a “constant vigil to keep people from doing this,” noting more than 30 people including volunteers and game wardens now monitor the Guadalupe and all its tributaries for signs
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I went to school as a kid not too far from there. The area is now Third World - within sight of highrises.
High rises? How high are you talking about in San Jose?
Inundate your state with 3rd world stuff, deal with 3rd world sh*t.
Have you seen the skyline of downtown San Jose lately? High rises for San Jose...
I had no idea fishing licenses disappeared in the state. I mean, for people to be poaching...
Give Jose a fish and he’ll eat for a day. Teach Jose how to build fish traps and he’ll eat for the rest of his life. Or until ICE hauls his brown butt back to Mexico.
Without traps, the illegal fish will run rampant.
ILLEGAL? Or just undocumented?
The fish in that creek be mighty tasty ... not..
for such a prosperous area, it sure does have a lot of po’ folk..
Back in the 80s, I knew a guy who lived in a small house on Virginia Street in San Jose. He was a professor who hung out at Republican state conventions. He claimed his house was haunted, but when it turned out that he was a heavy user of psychotropic drugs, we figured out the source of the ghosts.
Check out the pier in San Diego/Imperial Beach. No license required to fish off it. People would just ignore it.
Oh, no! What about the poor illegal family man trying to feed is starving anchor babies with the fish? A welfare check only goes so far.
Looks like a bunch of rocks to me! Is LSD available at a discount there...just curious!
Used to live there. Third largest city in the state with +/-850K population. Highrises top off at about 15 stories, because downtown is in the flight path of the airport.
This is prolly how Haiti got started
I sure would not drink or eat anything out of the river. Homeless use it for their bathroom and trash is feet deep in some areas.
Fish traps... har! They’re probably just impoundments so the homeless can bathe, wash clothes and shit in the water. That’s why fecal coliform and e-coli are through the roof in those areas. I’ve seen it and sampled for it down there but obviously “fish traps” and dirty poachers makes a better story.
Fish traps... har! They’re probably just impoundments so the homeless can bathe, wash clothes and shit in the water. That’s why fecal coliform and e-coli are through the roof in those areas. I’ve seen it and sampled for it down there but obviously “fish traps” and dirty poachers makes a better story.
Gah, in crappy cell area...
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