The wind is howling outside, the waves are big, we’ve received over 40” of rain to date, the rivers are at monitor stage, (when are the herring going to run?); and our thoughts are tuning to what lies ahead for this season. That depends! Groundfish: For Rockfish, we should have a promising season. Even though […]
The previous article on the Groundfish preview was long enough and I didn’t want to clutter it up with too many facts and figures on Pacific halibut, so I’ll tease your scientific curiosity in a brief article on statistical sampling. On several occasions on the HTC site people remark why we can’t get more attention
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Given the times, and the tools available, the oldest records of California halibut fishing primarily deal with commercial catches. But they do provide some evidence of how many fish once roamed the California coast. As early as the 1870s there were sailing vessels transporting iced halibut as far south as San Francisco. The fish originated
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North Coast anglers will be bracing for bad news as we begin to enter into the salmon harvest regulatory process for 2017. After multiple years of drought, the 2016 Klamath Fall Chinook adult returns hit historic lows, recording the lowest overall in-river run in 38 years of extensive record keeping and the third lowest natural
Thanksgiving is the time of year when families gather around a turkey (or baked salmon) and reflect on the past year. It’s fitting that we in the fishing community do the same. Sitting on the Groundfish Advisory Panel (GAP) with the PFMC as the Sports Representative, it’s been a year of gains and losses. The
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The Eel River Recovery Project (ERRP) has successfully estimated the Eel River fall Chinook run since 2012, and each year is unique and has different challenges. The 2015-2016 citizen assisted monitoring project was the most difficult, however, because early rains failed and dives were not able to be scheduled, and then rainfall was so high
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The PFMC has completed the groundfish biennial management process for 2017/18 and in the North we will finally see a few improved conditions, with some trade-offs. We will be allowed ten more fathoms of depth (20 to 30) and have “all depth” for the season extensions into November and December. This will allow us to
By the time the newsletter is out – the 2016 Klamath Management Zone (KMZ) ocean salmon season will be about wrapped up. In spite of good ocean conditions this summer, there were fewer salmon around and I can attest that other than for a few weeks in May, there were essentially no salmon to be
Pacific herring (Clupea pallasii) have a broad distribution in the eastern Pacific, ranging from Alaska to northern Baja, Mexico. Humboldt Bay has one of the largest spawning populations of Pacific herring in California. Other significant Californian spawning populations include San Francisco Bay (the largest), Tomales Bay, and Crescent City. Since the early 1970s these populations
