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Jim Matthews, ONS
12/4/02
ROCKFISH EYE-OPENER: Ricky Carbajal, skipper of the New Del Mar out of Marina del Rey Sportfishing, was out with biologists doing rockfish assessment work on Wednesday this week. Bocaccio, a rockfish that is supposedly so damaged by fishing pressure as to warrant endangered species listing, is now off limits to sport and commercial anglers, and probably will be for a long time. All rockfish are in dire straights, according to the marine biologists, and their goal Wednesday was to tag and release a number of the other species that are still fished by sport anglers some of the year.
The problem Carbajal and the biologists found was not in catching fish. The problem was catching rockfish other than bocaccio. He couldn’t get away from bocaccio. The endangered one.
kippers all along the coast have said the bocaccio closure was based on bad science and the numbers of this popular fish were better the last couple of seasons than they’ve been since the last big El Nino apparently had a negative impact on all rockfish. Do the skippers think all rockfish closures should be lifted? No, their numbers are definitely down, but reduced sportfish limits and better management can be more effective than closures for many reasons.
12/4/02
ROCKFISH EYE-OPENER: Ricky Carbajal, skipper of the New Del Mar out of Marina del Rey Sportfishing, was out with biologists doing rockfish assessment work on Wednesday this week. Bocaccio, a rockfish that is supposedly so damaged by fishing pressure as to warrant endangered species listing, is now off limits to sport and commercial anglers, and probably will be for a long time. All rockfish are in dire straights, according to the marine biologists, and their goal Wednesday was to tag and release a number of the other species that are still fished by sport anglers some of the year.
The problem Carbajal and the biologists found was not in catching fish. The problem was catching rockfish other than bocaccio. He couldn’t get away from bocaccio. The endangered one.
kippers all along the coast have said the bocaccio closure was based on bad science and the numbers of this popular fish were better the last couple of seasons than they’ve been since the last big El Nino apparently had a negative impact on all rockfish. Do the skippers think all rockfish closures should be lifted? No, their numbers are definitely down, but reduced sportfish limits and better management can be more effective than closures for many reasons.
