Halibut changes… permanent?

Does anybody truly believe the emergency action to reduce CA halibut take to 2 is permanent? Because it is NOT permanent. That sort of ends this entire discussion. If you’ve been fishing & paying attention for long enough, you will see bag limits/minimum sizes/methods of take/etc are constantly changing. I appreciate the adaptive management approach the dept has been using the last 15yrs. The opposite/alternative would be to keep the same regs each season, regardless of the fishery health. That sounds worse, right?

How about we petition for more CA halibut regions? Because the populations are totally different in various regions. We currently have 2 regions: south & north of Pt Conception. But the SF bay population has nothing to do with the halibut in SLO or Tomales or Humboldt. In fact, if they split them up into the same categories as the respective marine regions, it would make a lot of sense: Northern, Mendo, SF, Central, and Southern.

Since we're being dismissive of people concerned about regulations being locked in:
https://www.norcalkayakanglers.com/index.php?topic=101708.0

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Here is the link to the Recreational Fishing Regulations for Federal Groundfish: https://youtu.be/NIBLfzMrLpM?si=mSup6DdaO9HkspbG

CDFW (Dr. Craig Shuman) appreciates our participation and doing the nearshore season survey. (4:25 of the video)

On another note, the Northern California Halibut limit has been permanently reduced to 2.

Non-Motorized Petition Workgroup,

Paul"