Posted on 12/10/2024 11:35:34 AM PST by nickcarraway
The California Department of Fish and Wildlife announced on Friday that the California commercial Dungeness crab fishery will be closed until at least Dec. 31.
This is to prevent the entanglement of whales from crab gear. Dungeness crab traps will also stay off-limits off the central coast.
The CDFW has reported that four humpback whales have been entangled in Dungeness crab traps so far in 2024. Nine other entanglements have been confirmed from unknown fishing gear.
“We support the Department’s decision to further delay opening the crab season, especially with whales still feeding off our shores and the alarming number of whale entanglements this year. Stronger measures are needed to bring entanglement numbers down and prevent this ongoing and unacceptable wildlife tragedy along the West Coast,” said Dr. Geoff Shester, Oceana’s California campaign director and senior scientist.
Dungeness crab season delayed for the 7th year in a row The next risk assessment will be conducted on Dec. 20, 2024. The assessment will determine if a commercial fishery opener on or around Jan. 1, 2025.
Oh joy
A rope is probably not perceived as a threat by a whale. I know the Grey Whales sometines get caught in the steel haywire used by salmon trollers.
Invent a shot (line from
bouy to trap) that bio
degrades in 72 hours once
exposed to sea water.
They molt, and then spend a period growing and hardening up. “Meat fill” is a standard that needs to be met for commercial harvest. Testing is done, and seasons determined by test results.
Thanks.
Wouldn’t mind showing her my humpback...
Some of the softer-shelled clams are “first 12” (or 20) limits.
I’ve been on the beach when a lot of crab molts wash ashore. They look just like whole, live crabs. Pretty creepy when they’re a foot deep.
Any article that uses the made up word “overfishing”, in context with modern fisheries, is full of it - there is no such thing.
A fishery is either regulated or it is not. If it is regulated and stocks decline, the onus is on the managers, not the fishermen. If a stock is unregulated, then the onus is again on managers failing to manage.
Oceaneos is a rabid anti-commercial fishing org.
What happened in the 18th and 19th centuries is of no import to modern fisheries.
I find it interesting as the years go on, which animal gets the good press. Years ago it was the seals in the north that got the good press to stop the folks from clubbing them to death. Now it is the Polar Bears that get the good press (but eat the seals).
Still on-going competition between the whales and the salmon in the press. Mostly the salmon in the news for Washington State as the state hustles to meet a court-ordered deadline for replacing old, small culverts that prevent fish passage.
The state is spending millions of dollars on new culverts, but then there will be an old small culvert a half mile up the creek that stops the fish! This is happening in dozens of places.
What a cool life you’ve led!
I lived south of San Diego for a few years. When friends would come to visit from the Midwest I would take them to San Diego Bay for some whale watching - wintertime was the best.
We’d always see whales, and tons of Dolphin - which are supposedly related? I dunno - but once we were on a pretty small boat and a Navy submarine breached RIGHT NEXT TO US - I mean WAY too close for comfort!
The Captain later told us that was all part of the show - but I think the Sub Commander was just being a dick, LOL!
What happened in the 18th and 19th and mid-20th centuries is of no import to modern fisheries.
See how that works?
Oregon looks beautiful; but is it all as rainy as some parts seem to be?
Lizzo
November was bad, here. South coast. December hasn’t been too rainy, but it starts again, tomorrow. On the coast, we have summer in October, and often, February. Sometimes the real summer is a bit windy. You have to adjust your thinking, a bit. Winter isn’t brutally cold, and the lengthening days are welcome. Certainly the east side of the Cascades is a lot drier. Things on the coast are green, now, and pretty much stay that way until spring, when things get electric green.
It sounds very different, and kind of nice.
But do you ever get snow?
We get maybe one snow a year, where I am. On Spring Break, typically. Snow is more frequent, inland. I’m not a big fan, so one snow.is fine. It melts in a few days. My cat of many years recently died. She was mostly white, so couldn’t catch the squirrels she stalked until there was scattered snow on the ground. She made good use of it.
Not a comment about Chinese gill nets and many lost and still fishing
Not sure if I can hold out that long. Might have to resort to the Crustacean Black Market.
LOL!
I’m on the other side of the continent, near the mid-Atlantic coast.
When I was young, I loved playing out in the snow (by ‘young’, I mean into my late thirties.)
I don’t like to play in it so much now, but I’d very much miss sitting in the window and watching it fall down a couple of times per year.
I’d probably like the clamming and mushroom hunting where you are, though...
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