Publication Date:
2021-06-28
Description:
The catch landed and effort expended by private-boatsport fishermen in southern California were studiedbetween April and June 1982, in order to determine theimpact of this segment of the sport fishery on localmarine resources. Fishermen returning from fishingtrips were interviewed at launch ramps, hoists, andboat-rental facilities. This report contains quantitative data and statistical estimates of total effort, total catch, catch of preferred species, and length frequencies for those species whose catches are regulated by minimum size limits.An estimated 213,000 organisms were landed by 102,000anglers and 3,300 divers. The major components of thecatch were white croaker, Genyonemus lineatus (56,000landed); and Pacific mackerel, Scomber japonicus (43,000landed). Together these two species made up almost one half of the estimated southern California sport catch.Anglers' compliance with size limit regulations wasvariable. Approximately 91% of all basses, Paralabraxspp., measured were legal size. Only 10% of the whiteseabass, Stractoscion nobilis, were larger than the minimumsize limit imposed on March 1, 1982. Divers' compliancewith size limit regulations on abalone, averaged 94%. (33pp.)
Keywords:
Management
;
Fisheries
;
white croaker
;
Genyonemus lineatus
;
Pacific mackerel
;
Scomber japonicus
;
white seabass
;
Stractoscion nobilis
Repository Name:
AquaDocs
Type:
monograph
Format:
application/pdf
Format:
application/pdf
