Regulations question about crabs and rockfish

Nice followups, guys.  PK, I think you're right on, and I doubt it's ever enforced.

Regarding the live fish transport, there was a good thread about it here maybe a year or more ago - try a search on it.  I'll search on it and post back if I find it.  Basically it confirmed what PK just said - saltwater to saltwater around here is not monitored AT ALL, and doesn't need to be - unless we start using quagga or zebra mussels for bait...   

 

this is why we need to each have a second kayak with an attorney in tow

Personally I believe you can crab / fish rock fish at the same time and also transport bait while on the ocean . When has F&G ever " OVER LOOKED " something illegal or for that matter in the grey area ?

Here is a post by the Coastside DFG Warden

"Title 14 Sec 1.63. Movement of live Fish. Except as provided in Sections 4.00 through 4.30 and 230, live fin fish may not be transported alive from the water where taken."

F&G Code 45 Fish. "Fish means wild fish, mollusks, crustaceans, invertebrates, or amphibians, including any part, spawn or ova thereof".

Scott, did you ever get an answer from Fish and Game?

1.63 applies to all waters, both inland and ocean. There are several reasons for the regulation. One is to prevent the spread of diseases and invasive species. There may be spawn of zebra mussels, green crabs, invasive algae, sabellid worm or other microscopic organizes in the fish or water that you are moving. We don't want you moving something from San Francisco Bay to Half Moon Bay spreading some unwanted organism to Half Moon Bay. I suggest catching your bait fish in Half Moon Bay to fish with out of Half Moon Bay. Use the fish you catch in San Francisco Bay in the Bay. In inland waters, don’t move fish from one lake to the next and one stream to another. The other reason for the regulation is to curb the illegal catching and transporting live fish for the aquarium trade or illegal baitfish trade.

Link to the post started by somebody we know http://www.coastsidefishingclub.com/forums/showflat.php?Cat=0&Board=DFG&Number=523460&Searchpage=1&Main=508778&Words=+dmckiver&topic=&Search=true#Post523460

I was wrong. Just heard back from our buddy Matt.

According to two different wardens and the groundfish supervisor for the Monterey offices, it IS legal to catch crabs and rockfish at the same time.

All 3 of them said essentially the same thing: That crab pot line does not count towards rockfish fishing. The crab pot is not targeting rockfish and is a completely different apparatus.

I was wrong. Just heard back from our buddy Matt.

According to two different wardens and the groundfish supervisor for the Monterey offices, it IS legal to catch crabs and rockfish at the same time.

All 3 of them said essentially the same thing: That crab pot line does not count towards rockfish fishing. The crab pot is not targeting rockfish and is a completely different apparatus.

Whoo-hoo, crabtime!