FMP for Pacific herring in California

https://cdfwherring.wordpress.com/2016/08/22/herring-fmp-development-underway/

Hopefully it will not hurt recreational herring fishery much.

You need to be included on the electronic mailing list to participate the process of plan development.

Just sent an email trying to add myself  on the list.

So the commercial guys, conservation, and the dfw have got together and proposed some as of yet undisclosed measures, buried at the bottom of the notice is a poi t for regulating the recreational fishery.

Guess who is about to lose the herring fishery.

I'm sick of this crap.  I'll add this to my list of shit to do.

Where are all you guys that take herring?  Let's kick this pig straight away.  Seems like a really good hill to take.  Here's the background info:

Wiki article in case you have no idea what a herring is:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_herring

State OPC notes- Good place to start. - http://opc.ca.gov/webmaster/ftp/project_pages/Rapid%20Assessments/Pacific%20Herring.pdf

CDFW prepared power point delivered at international herring summit last year - this is good, read it more than once:

http://oceanmodelingforum.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/15_Greiner-Pherring-summit-Richmond-BC-June-10-2015.pdf

News articles:

2011- http://baynature.org/article/a-good-season-for-bay-herring/

2015- http://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/fish-fight/Content?oid=4688410

Discussion here about 2015 article-
http://www.norcalkayakanglers.com/index.php?topic=71004.msg805383#msg805383

Historical herring fisheries document, often cited in other works-

1988- http://www.nwrc.usgs.gov/wdb/pub/species_profiles/82_11-079.pdf

1981- https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwjqmL-L9NfOAhVKzmMKHT5iC5kQFggcMAA&url=https%3A%2F%2Fnrm.dfg.ca.gov%2FFileHandler.ashx%3FDocumentID%3D31407&usg=AFQjCNG5StKDvdAStjuo-nWlQxcMvr1_uQ&sig2=r3T_FCAu-lDqohYuOkLN2Q&bvm=bv.129759880,d.dmo

Seafood watch, Packard propaganda machine document that will support continued unlimited rec take, except for that part that calls for more management for no apparent reason- http://www.seafoodwatch.org/-/m/sfw/pdf/reports/h/mba_seafoodwatch_pacificherring_california_report.pdf

And there it is.  The bottom fell out of the price of herring roe in Japan, stocks/biomass estimates are down here so there isn't as much available anyway, 96% of the herring caught in the US for export come from Alaska the other 4% from California, and somehow the recreational take needs to be regulated out of some sense of, I dunno, fairness?

Here's the guy at DFW responsible for the FMP process-

Ryan Bartling, Environmental Scientist
California Department of Fish and Wildlife
5355 Skylane Blvd., Suite B
Santa Rosa, CA 95403
Office: (707) 576-2877
[email protected]

Here's the other manager that prepared the power point:
Thomas Greiner, Environmental Scientist
California Department of Fish and Wildlife
5355 Skylane Blvd., Suite B
Santa Rosa, CA 95403
Office: (707) 576-2876
[email protected]

I have other work to catch up on and will come back to this, but there's the nutshell.  If a moderator wants to move this to politics that might be a good idea.  Thanks.

This is no bueno. I love the herring fishery. It is one of the most exciting fisheries in the winter, in my opinion. Chasing all those darn fish around the bay until you intercept them is a ton of fun. It's like chasing salmon reports. It takes a certain level of skill and time to be able to do that, and the impact of the recreational fishery is minimal because not many people can do it.

With that said, i'm usually in favor or sensible regulations that protect the fishery, however if policy and regulations are disguises for racist overtones and political gains, it should be called out for it. Thanks for sharing. I'll keep an eye on it.

In not so sure about playing the race card. There are certain populations that utilize some fisheries disproportionately to their numbers in the general population but that doesn't mean that attempts to regulate are motivated by racism. It's usually a lazy response to an enforcement issue or a political kickback.

I don't think race has anything at all to do with this.