Lauriboats
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Panga netting in the Bay of Conception
Not that I think this will do any good, but it sure did make me feel better. I posted this very short video on u tube today.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbGnd2tvhrI
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
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flyfishinPam
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watching it now, it is likely legal what they're doing, they probably have permits and the panga is displaying numbers. i'd be interested in hearing
what the sportfishing community thinks about it and on their perspective on the impact of this kind of extraction. once we get our crap together in
Loreto and become more organized we plan on coming to Mulege and getting the pangueros there unified as well. keep up the documentation you can be a
great help just by doing things like this.
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Russ
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You only saw the one? There was a seiner working at the mouth of Concepcion and in the Santa Inez Bay this morning and about 6 netters off Shell Beach
all day. It has reached a point where a friend, a netter, who complained to me there where too many netters out there. Many from the mainland that
changed from squid to nets. I haven't seen a navy boat in months and have lost all enthusiasm to surf fish here.
Bahia Concepcion where life starts...given a chance!
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Pescador
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Geez, like this is something really new. The Bay of Concepcion has been overnetted for years. It is only old learned ways that keep them coming
back, it sure isn't that they manage to catch anything there anymore.
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Pompano
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Laurie...
Maybe they were the same ones as these?
These boys took over 10,000 kilos of sierra mackerel out of Conception Bay just a couple weeks ago. All legal fishing I am told.
There has been an increasing amount of netting going on within the bay in the last 3 years. Since 1971 dozens of us homeowners and taxpayers in
Mulege have reported poachers, lodged protests about illegal activities such as shrimping inside the bay via petition letters and in person.
All to no avail. Yet we continue in the hopes that things can change for the better and the Bay will once again be the aquarium of all aquariums.
You would never believe the sheer variety and abundance of marine life that once existed in this bay.
[Edited on 1-8-2010 by Pompano]
I do what the voices in my tackle box tell me.
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Lauriboats
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Could be the same boat, they tried to sell us of some of the fish, of course we refused.
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
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Debra
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Same thing in LA Bay, everytime I see them in front of my house I'm tempted to throw rocks at them.  But, it's their country and their laws.
Mean people suck!
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bajabass
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The bait boats for the tuna pens are stripping bait up and down the coast as well. The bait balls along the northern Pacific are usually being fed
upon by every inshore sportfish that swims. Yellowtail, calicos, sandbass, white seabass, bonito, and sharks are just the inshore species being
incidental byproduct, let alone the tuna, billfish, and dorado offshore. As I have said before, the fishing between Ensenada and Rosarito has
deteriorated dramatically. I see the bait boats from my backyard in the evening, and know where I am NOT going to fish in the morning. The local panga
guys are having a hard time of it. No Bait=No Fish
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