"New" rockfish habitat

The picture with the rockfish was front page in the Monterey Paper yesterday.  The USS Macon is apparently off Pt Sur in 1000 feet of water.

http://www.mbari.org/news/news_releases/2006/macon-images-postcruise.html

That is an interesting bit of history there.

-Brian G

That is too deep for legal rockfish and isn't Pt. Sur going to be a MLPA anyway?  What a shame.

Ya, I saw that on the news the other day. When they showed video footage, there was a HUGE vermillion (or some sort of redish RF) swimming up out of the wreck. Then they showed more footage of the wreck and I spotted a couple cabezon...or scorpionfish--they were really red.
Too deep for fishing but still very interesting.

PK

Pt Sur is owned by the Navy and therefore off limits.  They won't let the state make it an MPA.  Yep, Vermillion and Cowcod like the deep structure.

Cool pics. I would love to be able to go down there and check that stuff out in person. Maybe someday we will have submarine rides like they do space rides. 

That’s so cool.  Can you imagine being a pilot and "docking" at a dirigible????? 
It’s a shame that they were so fragile….

It is a real shame California does not do more to create artificial reefs. We could recover habitat lost from other activities (and the MLPA) and spread some of the pressure around a bit.