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News Release: For Immediate Release
March 27, 2003
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Abalone Split-Season Opens April 1
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Contacts: Kon Karpov, DFG Senior Marine Biologist, (707) 964-7298: Steve Martarano, DFG Information Officer, (916) 654-5866
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The abalone sportfishing seven-month split-season opens April 1 in ocean waters north of San Francisco Bay. The sport season runs each year from April 1 to June 30, then Aug. 1 to Nov. 30. North coast red abalone can only be taken for personal consumption and not for sale or barter.
In December 2001, the Fish and Game Commission approved sportfishing regulations that put recreational bag limits on abalone to three per day, 24 per year.
Also, this will be the fourth year an abalone report card (also called punch card) is required for each licensed abalone fisherman. Persons taking abalone are required, upon reaching shore or a boat, to immediately make a hole by completely removing a pre-cut punch for each abalone taken. They are also required to record date, time, and location in the spaces adjacent to the hole. DFG added a location code to the report card in 2002 to collect more precise data on location of take. This information will assist in determining the distribution of the abalone catch. Return of abalone report cards is mandatory. Abalone report cards must be returned to the DFG within 30 days of the close of the season on Dec. 1, whether any abalone are taken or not.
Regulations still include a 7-inch minimum size limit, measured along the longest shell diameter, and possession of a fixed measuring device.
Sport divers are prohibited from using scuba or other surface supplied air equipment to catch abalone and cannot possess abalone on board any boat, vessel, or floating device in the water containing scuba or surface supplied air. There is no problem transporting abalone and scuba gear while together on land. Divers working from boats, kayaks, float tubes or other floating devices who wish to use scuba equipment to spear fish or harvest sea urchins, rock scallops or crabs of the genus Cancer, will need to make a separate trip.
March 27, 2003
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Abalone Split-Season Opens April 1
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Contacts: Kon Karpov, DFG Senior Marine Biologist, (707) 964-7298: Steve Martarano, DFG Information Officer, (916) 654-5866
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The abalone sportfishing seven-month split-season opens April 1 in ocean waters north of San Francisco Bay. The sport season runs each year from April 1 to June 30, then Aug. 1 to Nov. 30. North coast red abalone can only be taken for personal consumption and not for sale or barter.
In December 2001, the Fish and Game Commission approved sportfishing regulations that put recreational bag limits on abalone to three per day, 24 per year.
Also, this will be the fourth year an abalone report card (also called punch card) is required for each licensed abalone fisherman. Persons taking abalone are required, upon reaching shore or a boat, to immediately make a hole by completely removing a pre-cut punch for each abalone taken. They are also required to record date, time, and location in the spaces adjacent to the hole. DFG added a location code to the report card in 2002 to collect more precise data on location of take. This information will assist in determining the distribution of the abalone catch. Return of abalone report cards is mandatory. Abalone report cards must be returned to the DFG within 30 days of the close of the season on Dec. 1, whether any abalone are taken or not.
Regulations still include a 7-inch minimum size limit, measured along the longest shell diameter, and possession of a fixed measuring device.
Sport divers are prohibited from using scuba or other surface supplied air equipment to catch abalone and cannot possess abalone on board any boat, vessel, or floating device in the water containing scuba or surface supplied air. There is no problem transporting abalone and scuba gear while together on land. Divers working from boats, kayaks, float tubes or other floating devices who wish to use scuba equipment to spear fish or harvest sea urchins, rock scallops or crabs of the genus Cancer, will need to make a separate trip.
