Posts Tagged ‘fishing’
Opponents of the Marine Life Protection Act have a new blog and a petition that needs to be wrapped up by April 19.
The purpose of the website is to provide “information and conversation space for people who want to prevent the MLPA Initiative from closing all recreational and subsistence fishing, abalone diving, and mussel and seaweed harvest around the mouth of the Mattole and Punta Gorda.”
The petition can be found at these locations:
Petrolia Store
Honeydew Store
The Yellow Rose, Petrolia
Valley Grocery, Ferndale
Valley Lumber, Ferndale
Nielsen Co., Ferndale
R&S Livestock, Ferndale
The Palace, Ferndale
The VI, Ferndale
Grundman’s, Rio Dell
Murrish Market, Hydesville
Shamus T-Bones, Carlotta
Sport & Cycle, Fortuna
Napa Auto, Fortuna
Wildwood Saw Shop, Fortuna
Humboldt Creamery, Fernbridge
Bucksport, Eureka
Pro-Sport Center, Eureka
Humboldt Trade & Pawn, Eureka
Marcelli’s Shootery, Eureka
Mad River Outfitters, Arcata
Ace Hardware, Sunny Brae
Tags: Arcata, ca, California, Eureka, Fernbridge, Ferndale, fishing, Fortuna, Honeydew, Humboldt, Humboldt Creamery, Mad River, Northern California, Petrolia, pot, Punta Gorda, Rio Dell
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This Friday will mark the 100-year anniversary of Blue Lake becoming incorporated as a city. The city of Blue Lake, in its past, was known as a resort area with hotels, entertainment, fishing, swimming and a robust logging industry.
Tags: Blue Lake, fishing, Humboldt, Humboldt County, Humboldt County News, logging
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Northern California ocean salmon anglers will get plenty of time on the water this year, and some commercial fishing will be allowed after being shut down for the past two years.
Tags: ca, California, fishing, Humboldt, Humboldt County, Humboldt County News, Local, Northern California, Salmon
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Fishermen are waiting anxiously to find out what this year’s salmon season will look like, as federal fisheries managers meeting in Portland, Ore., this week weigh potential effects of fishing on depleted Sacramento River salmon stocks.
Tags: ca, coast, fishing, fishing season, Humboldt, Humboldt County, Humboldt County News, Local, pot, Sacramento, Salmon
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Less than two hours into the 2010 abalone fishing season, a diver was pulled from the ocean south of Mendocino by Coast Guard personnel and flown to the coast hospital.
Tags: ca, California, coast, fishing, fishing season, Humboldt, Mendocino, Northern California
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McKINLEYVILLE — The U.S. Coast Guard evacuated a 28-year-old man from a fishing boat off of Cape Mendocino on Thursday. At around 8:45 a.m., the Coast Guard received a distress call from the 34-foot fishing vessel Oregon 350, saying they had
Tags: ca, coast, fishing, Humboldt, Humboldt County, Humboldt County News, Local, McKinleyville, Mendocino, Oregon, U.S. Coast Guard
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Less than two hours into the 2010 abalone fishing season, a diver was pulled from the ocean south of Mendocino by Coast Guard personnel and flown to the coast hospital.
Tags: ca, California, coast, fishing, fishing season, Humboldt, Mendocino, Northern California
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Fishing down south [Daily Triplicate]
DN still holds out hope for season here
From staff and wire reports
Recreational salmon fishermen will again plunk their lines in the waters off much of the California coast this year after a two-year break because of a decline in the number of fish returning to the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.
But not in Del Norte County, although there’s still hope for some fishing here later in the year.
The short sport season that begins Saturday south of Humboldt Bay is currently scheduled to last only through the month of April, a short respite for a struggling industry.
Tags: ca, California, coast, Del Norte County, Delta, fishing, Humboldt, Humboldt Bay, Sacramento, Salmon
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Obituaries: Morris Wayne Fugate (Oct. 04, 1939 – Mar. 23, 2010) [Daily Triplicate]
Morris Wayne Fugate, 70, passed away on March 23, 2010 in Crescent City, CA. He was born on October 4, 1939 in Crivitz, Wisc. He was a 57 year resident of Del Norte County.
Morris was a member of the BPOE Elks Lodge # 1689, member of the Hiouchi Community Fellowship Church and former member of the Redwood Scramblers Motorcycle Club. He worked in the timber industry for over 50 years and was employed by Rellim and the Simpson Mills. He was an avid bowler who bowled for Larry’s Auto Supply and enjoyed ocean fishing and crabbing.
Tags: ca, Crescent City, Del Norte County, fishing, Humboldt, redwood
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The New York Times – A proposal to put the legalization of marijuana in California to a vote this November is causing some growers of the plant in the state to worry about a sharp drop in the value of their crop if the measure succeeds.
Tags: ca, California, fishing, Humboldt, Humboldt County, Humboldt County News, job, Local, marijuana, pot
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Local commercial fishermen say they’re not optimistic about this year’s salmon prospects, even after a federal panel recommended reopening the fishing season along the California coast, with restrictions.
Tags: ca, California, coast, fishing, fishing season, Humboldt, Local, Northern California, Salmon
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Even the worst case scenario for North Coast ocean sport fishermen this year appears to be substantially better than last year’s token fishery. At the same time, commercial salmon fishermen — having struggled with several recent years of
Tags: ca, coast, fishing, Humboldt, Humboldt County, Humboldt County News, Local, Sacramento, Salmon
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It Looks like The Klamath River could be the hot spot for salmon fishing this coming season.
Tags: California, Eureka, fishing, Humboldt, KIEM, Klamath, Klamath River, Northern California, Salmon
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New fishing regulations take effect on Monday [Daily Triplicate]
Changes to have a big impact on Del Norte County
Several new sport fishing regulations will take effect throughout the
state Monday, and Del Norte County will experience the bulk of the
changes.
Tags: Del Norte County, fishing, Humboldt
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Surges jostle Crescent City harbor after 8.8 magnitude quake in Chile [Daily Triplicate]
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Ocean surges reached Del Norte County on Saturday afternoon after an 8.8 magnitude earthquake in Chile, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said.
One of the surges, according to gauges in the Crescent City area, was 2 feet above normal levels.
Sandbars not normally visible in the Crescent City Harbor poked above the water line on several occasions as water receded before the surges.
The tsunami advisory remained in effect Saturday evening, and emergency personnel were still in the harbor at 5:15 p.m.
NOAA said coastal residents in tsunami advisory areas, including Crescent City, Klamath and Smith River, still should stay out of the water, off of the beach and out of harbors and marinas.
People lined observation points along the coastline trying to catch a glimpse of a tsunami.
Bob Ginnochio of Crescent City, owner of the charter fishing vessel Tally Ho II, watched from the harbor docks after receiving a call about the tsunami warning.
“I just came out to make sure my boat was tied up — if the dock goes, at least it would be tied to the dock,” said Ginnochio.
Ginnochio said he began docking his boat at the harbor in 1993, and the vessel road out the 35-inch surge that damaged the docks in 2006.
His boat was undamaged then, and it appeared every boat left in the harbor would escape damage Saturday.
John Brubaker decided he would just pull his 22-foot boat out of the water.
Brubaker said with a laugh he pulled his boat out because “there’s a tsunami coming — it’s just common sense.”
Ginnochio said the harbor was allowing people to take their boats out to sea to wait out the surge or leave them in the harbor.
A couple dozen boats were taken out to sea in case of a bigger tsunami.
Authorities blocked public access to Citizen’s Dock, only allowing boat owners to come in and either secure or take their vessels out to sea.
Sheriff’s Commander Bill Steven said access was blocked because if the harbor was flooded with people, it would create a safety issue for boats coming in and out.
Crescent City Police Sgt. Garrett Scott said authorities also blocked access to B Street Pier, the Preston Island parking lot off of Pebble Beach Drive and the Crescent City jetty.
By comparison to Saturday’s surges, the biggest wave of the destructive 1964 tsunami here was estimated at 22 feet above the mean low tide level, meaning it was 16 feet above the tide at the time.
Researchers have found that the crescent shape of the city’s coastline along South Beach tends to amplify tsunami energy, and with the way the harbor is situated, it seems to act as a funnel for the surge. More recent research has suggested the inner boat basin adds to this effect, and focuses a tsunami’s energy even more.
This was seen the last time a tsunami struck Crescent City in November 2006. On that occasion, a 35-inch surge that never breached land caused millions of dollars worth of damage to the inner boat basin.
In 1964, a 9.2 magnitude earthquake in Alaska generated a series of waves that destroyed much of Crescent City’s downtown, killing 11 people in Del Norte County.
A 9.5-magnitude earthquake in Chile on May 22, 1960, generated a tsunami that caused flooding in coastal areas of Crescent City. It was the strongest recorded earthquake in human history.
Tags: coast, Crescent City, Del Norte County, downtown, earthquake, fishing, flooding, Humboldt, jetty, Klamath, Local, Smith River, tsunami
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