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General Talk / Smolt release at Fort Baker tonite. YAKKERS NEEDED!
« on: June 17, 2018, 01:54:53 PM »
Yesterday they successfully released a bunch of smolt at FB. Towards the end of the dump some gulls got in on the action and made of with some smolt.
 My friend Jim Anderson, one of the guys in charge of the project said he would love to have the help of a few yacks to keep the gulls away from the discharge pipe tonite.
 I'll check back in later to see if anyone can help.
If you don't hear from me you can just go down to Fort Baker 45 min or so early and ask around for Jim Anderson and he'll him your one of the yakers he was looking for. He'll tell you what to do.

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General Talk / Re: Bye Bye, Net Neutrality...
« on: December 17, 2017, 07:44:12 AM »
Kim Komando wrote this about net neutrality and I think it pretty much sums up the situation;

As you are no doubt aware, the FCC voted 3-2 on Thursday, to repeal the 2 1/2-year-old Net Neutrality rules. I�ll admit that the coined phrase, �Net Neutrality� certainly sounded good.

The words invoked images of a perfect world. You know, where there's a fair and free market and open internet. Where there's a neutral level playing field so that anyone anywhere could cook up an idea and run with it and no one could put up any barriers to get in their way.

The Washington name game

Like most legislation coming out of Washington, the name didn't really reflect what the law would have done. Here�s a case in point: Ask yourself, �Where was the internet 25 years ago in 1992?� For the most part, it did not exist!

OK, then ask yourself how in the world did it become the all-pervasive, everywhere at once, information, education, communications, entertainment, shopping and commerce giant that it is today? Was it because of early so-called Net Neutrality? Well, of course not. In fact, most agree that the internet is what it is precisely because the government did NOT interfere.

It did not regulate, oversee, act as traffic cop or playground teacher. For the government, it was strictly, HANDS OFF. And we created the freest and fair marketplace in history, allowing consumers to choose the winners and losers in a competitive marketplace.

This resulted in the best ideas, products and services rising to the top. The internet thrived, business competition soared. New business opportunities became possible, think eBay, VRBO, Amazon, the list is endless. Everyone benefitted because the playing field was level. Anyone could come. And everyone DID come.

The internet became a place where anyone could do virtually anything and make money. Free speech abounded. Every viewpoint was clamoring to be heard. Suddenly, people of both sides of the political fence began coming up with ways and ideas to silence those on the OTHER side of the fence. Lots of ideas were floated including an internet �use tax� or licensing websites the same way they license radio and TV stations.
What's the "Net Neutrality" fight really about?

A few years ago, someone cooked up a coined phrase �Net Neutrality.� Who couldn�t be for a neutral internet? It played especially well with recent college graduates, ahhh the Millennials, who were not around for the beginning of the internet to be firsthand witnesses of how its level playing field grew from nothing.

The fight over net neutrality was never about a level digital playing field, although that�s what its advocates continue to claim. Its real purpose was to prohibit something called �paid prioritization.� Paid prioritization is the technical term used to describe an agreement between a content provider and a network owner to allow the provider�s data to travel on less-congested routes in exchange for an agreed-upon fee.

When networks are clogged with data during high-traffic times, prioritization agreements allow consumers to receive requested data faster. Netflix and other high-volume content providers have already begun negotiating such deals. All kinds of data including emails, cat videos, that Instagram photo of your sandwich, travel over the internet but some data types are more tolerant of delays or temporary congestion.

For instance, the bits comprising an email don�t need to arrive at a recipient�s computer all in the same order they were sent. Other kinds of data, primarily video, are less tolerant of delays. Receiving the data bits in the wrong order or at the wrong time can cause distortions, stutters and other playback problems.
You get what you pay for

If they choose to do so, content companies like Hulu and Netflix can choose to pay ISPs a little bit extra to have their content bits delivered to consumers faster than some other company, such as Amazon. Very NOT neutral, but necessary.

To prohibit it harms consumers in the name of helping them. Lost in the translation is this inconvenient fact: We�ve always had to pay for faster service! If you wanted faster service, you had to buy more bandwidth. Net Neutrality�s real name was FCC 15-24, a radical departure from the market-oriented policies that have served us so well for the last two decades.

Did we have evidence that the internet is not open? No. Did we discover some problem with our prior interpretation of the law? No. What happened was that despite 25 years of working just fine, the former FCC wanted to help large content providers like Amazon, Google, Twitter and Netflix gain leverage against traditional cable companies. So-called net neutrality would have prevented upgrading for better service.

ISPs would have been forced to treat all data alike, ignoring the different needs of the various kinds of data traveling over the internet. It stuck your favorite Netflix stream on the same slow road as your least-favorite email from work.

It would have prevented the data you want from getting to you when you want it and how you want it. Under the benign-sounding �Net Neutrality� campaign, BIG TECH companies like Google, Amazon, Yahoo would be able to censor the internet to suit their ideological preferences, ridding the internet of conservative and libertarian content.
Google's role in it all

Google was especially vested, as the tech giant helped write the 2015 net neutrality rules and Google, YouTube, Amazon, Twitter, Snapchat, Facebook and the others were trying to assume a kind of moral high-ground, to control the flow of data.

�Net Neutrality� would have given the Federal Government and big tech the power to choose winners and losers online, in an egregiously partisan manner. �Net Neutrality� said nothing about neutrality and everything about governmental control and nepotistic picking of favorites, which is the very opposite of neutrality.
Wow, your pulling a Kellyanne CONway here. Net neutrality has existed since the beginning of the internet. It's one of the principles that made the internet. It's the reason some guy with a connection could start a little site like craigslist . It was codified into law as BROADCAST tried to usurp the internet and treat it like Cable. It is NOT an  entertainment broadcast medium. Net neutrality was not some how coined by millennial hipsters. It's an issue that has been around long, long before 2015.
We're the big wigs of the industry at the table when the law was negotiated? Of course, fighting tooth and nail to dilute its protections to our free speech.

The last paragraph in your post is pure broadcast propaganda.  Id like to see an attempt at a logical defense of this statement

Mostly, I want to put to rest the notion that net neutrality started in 2015. It's been there since the beginning. The law was written to protect the internet from unbridled capitalism and crooked government officials.

The only reason this happened was that the wannabe oligarch orangutan simply HAS to undo everything the previous POTUS did and if he can enrich his fellow kleptogarchs and screw the small guy, all the better. Of course this would benefit  Trumps aspirations to start a broadcast company when he leaves office. Allot of favors to be paid by the broadcast industry.

P.S. Alex....keep up the good fight. Never forget Aaron Swartz (I wonder how many of you arguing against net neutrality know who he was)

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General Talk / Re: Deckhand wanted for crab season
« on: October 08, 2017, 08:48:24 AM »
Here she is.

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General Talk / Deckhand wanted for crab season
« on: October 08, 2017, 07:55:12 AM »
I'm running a slammer of a crab boat this season. 42 ft Vega. 250 pot permit. Cummins main, Kubota gen. 12K lbs crab tank. Screaming hydros. Bait chopper (yes, a bait chopper). Full galley, fridge, stove, microwave, toaster oven.
I'm looking for a box hand (junior crew member). Obviously experience is preferred but not at all necessary. This is a position often filled by rookies wanting a foot in the door of the commercial fishing industry. It's a tough job that takes physical stamina and an ability to work 20 hr shifts for the first month or so. Pay is a percentage of catch depending on experience and ability. Must be available to work on the gear starting soon, about a week (I still want to get a few salmon this week). If interested please TEXT me (don't phone. I get shitty reception in the Bolenas/ pt Reyes area and will be fishing solo next week. Zero time to answer calls. Ill get back to you)
Niko/sharky 510 706 1260

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General Talk / Re: crab deckhand wanted
« on: October 06, 2016, 08:36:27 AM »
Don't all shout at once! I don't know how I can make it sound more appealing...

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General Talk / Re: crab deckhand wanted
« on: October 01, 2016, 08:33:01 AM »
Added bonus. This is my deck boss. She'll kick your ass.

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General Talk / crab deckhand wanted
« on: October 01, 2016, 08:29:01 AM »
Dungeness is just around the corner and I'm looking for a box person. That means you would be the 3rd crew member.

It's a tough job. You need to be able to be able to stack 100 lb wet crab pots 6 high solo. You will work for approximately 2 weeks getting gear ready without being paid. You will work for a percentage off catch. Percent depends on experience and ability. A small percentage(around 15% of your share) will be withheld until completion of the season.
I'm not going to buy your commercial licence. I'm not going to buy you foul weather gear and I'm not buying a ticket to get here.
After the first week you can expect 4 hrs of sleep every 24. You'll probably get some, but don't expect much sleep for the first week.
Commercial fishing is the most dangerous occupation in the United States. Crabbing is the most dangerous fishery and Dungeness is the most dangerous crab fishery. This is no joke. This gig sux, but is an opportunity to get into a lucrative fishery.
If your interested post up and we'll talk.

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For Sale / Blast tuna and fresh salmon
« on: September 18, 2016, 07:35:44 AM »
I know that some of you enjoyed getting some of that blast albacore tuna over the last few years. The Preamble is back and selling at the sales dock next to Johnson Pier. I'll be tied up behind them selling salmon. I believe the tuna is $3 or $3,50/lb. For those of you who would rather not paddle to the green can an catch one of the thousands of salmon hanging out there or don't want to go shoulder to shoulder with the bankies slaying them on the beach in front of HMBK, you can buy one from me. NCKA discount, $12/lb.

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General Talk / Re: Whales off Pillar Point
« on: September 17, 2016, 06:05:05 PM »
Nice. Huge concentrations of them the last few weeks outside the harbor and up to Pedro. Lotsa mother calf pairs.

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Jim, shoot em all, in the face.

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Places to Launch and Camp / Re: Point Reyes ???
« on: August 31, 2016, 04:02:35 PM »
It isn't just the SMR. Julie also stole the water south of the headland out to the buoy. Cal DFW laws are about as elegant as a drunken car crash.

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Recipes / Re: Tastiest local fish?
« on: August 30, 2016, 09:52:09 AM »
WSB
Bluefin Tuna
Surf Smelt
Albacore
Mackerel

But our best seafood will have to be an epic battle between Spot Prawns and Abalone.

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General Talk / HMB Salmon
« on: August 28, 2016, 08:33:37 AM »
There are quite a few fish being caught just outside the harbor around the cans.

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General Talk / Re: Is Domoic Back for 2016/2017?
« on: August 28, 2016, 08:23:56 AM »
Ok, here's the scoop. Yup, it's still there. It's also a fake boogie man. My buddy has been obtaining the rc for the health department. He's been crabbing below pigeon pt. He's been selling these crab all summer long. Same crab that's testing around 200ppm. No one has gotten sick. They called him in to tell him they were going to close the fishery down. He arrived with his lawyer. The lawyer them that their criteria does not meet  accepted scientific standards and they have proof it didn't make people sick. He warned them that if they did close it without acceptable science they would be sued for the value of catch. Dungies and rock.. This sent them in a tail spin. They decided to keep the bullshit advisory but not close the fishery. Same fishery testing 200. Now someone help me here. 200 is a bigger number than 30 right? And 30 is their threshold, but they won't close it at 200.|¿?wtf!!!
Prescient....

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General Talk / Re: Stolen kayak
« on: August 28, 2016, 08:03:18 AM »
Ha ha, you guys are too much. Honestly I don't have time to deal with this shit. Inevitably tweakers end up screwing themselves. Short of throwing seal bombs at the boat every morning i pass it on the way to go fish I'm not going to put any effort into it.

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