In two emergency meetings Thursday and Friday, August 17-18, Harbor Commissioners voted 3-0 to send a letter to Assemblymember Jim Wood, Senator Mike McGuire and Representative Jared Huffman, asking for a 60 day moratorium on banning all ocean fishing along the North Coast.
August 7, the California Dept. of Fish and Wildlife (DFW) issued a directive regarding the retention of the quillback rockfish as prohibited state-wide. DFW sent out a second bulletin effectuating the ban mid-night, August 21, during the height of the ocean fishing season.
The ban on ocean fishing runs from Mendocino to the Oregon border.
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