And the rockfish are overfished for the live fish Asian market. Every
decent Asian Restaurant has a live fish tank. It is a cash business, so the
landings are under reported. And we are restricted to 2 hooks and 1 pole.
The commercials are tarketing the small 2-3# fish and drop traps in the Kelp
forest, and the rest are what are called stick fisherman. When longlines
were banned withing 200 miles if the coast, the fish and game told the
fisherman to cut the long line up into 100' lengths and each length has 3
treble hooks and a piece of rebar for a weight and a capped off piece of
3/4" pvc for the float (or stick) Even Kayak fishman are droping 50 sticks
in a small cove. Wipes out the population below breeding numbers. Like to
Party / head boats sith full loads fishing one small cove. The stick boats
are dropping 150 or so sticks. IS about all they can handle and keep the
fish alive.
"Shortwave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On Sat, 04 Jun 2005 02:25:14 GMT, "Bill McKee"
wrote:

Group I belong to has a couple of people appointed to the Stakeholders
advisory board. We also, though out attorney, have thrown a large monkey
wrench in the MLPA workings here in Calif. There was no money for the
studies, etc. required by the MLPA's. A couple of enviro extremists
stepped
up with money, and they only give money as the project moves along and
seems
to be in their favor. We have threatened to sue, as this is the first
case
of direct regulation via purchase in the states history.

Good luck with it.

I'm not against MPAs per se - in fact, I'm sort of for them in a
roaming, targeted sense. I wrote up a detailed revolving resource
protection plan - the short of it was that a series of MPAs would be
set up and rotate depending on ground stock levels and the health of
the general populations. It would be a five year least, ten year max
rotation for marked areas in which it would move on to the next
species or area.

It was actually pretty well received, but the whole study/idea never
got off the ground as the commercial interests killed the whole study.

Later,

Tom