WOW that's a lot of Abs outta the Fort.

With the MLPA closures this years #s will be interesting

About 50,000 red abalones were legally taken off Fort Ross in Sonoma County in 2009, and 60,000 were taken at Fort Ross Reef, said Patrick Foy, a California game warden. Those numbers, he said, are double the amount harvested in the same areas in 2007

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/07/04/MNUM1E7B57.DTL&tsp=1#ixzz0soSz2oo7

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/07/04/MNUM1E7B57.DTL&tsp=1

the 60,000 number is probably only including the legally taken abs based on returned report cards.
If you include the poached abs, God knows how many...

And I only got 1 Ab from that area last year! 

That comes out to an average of around 80 limits per day for each day of the season. Assuming that each ab was just 7 inches that is 16200 square feet or about 1/3 of a football field (no end zones) worth of open real estate for the next generation of abs.

-Brian G

That comes out to an average of around 80 limits per day for each day of the season.

94 limits/day with that 60,000 figure for abs taken at "Fort Ross Reef".

94 limits.  Every day...

Anyone else think this figure reeks of inaccuracy?  Do I smell someone cooking the books?...   

And if you figure in the weather condition during the Ab season (let say 50% are divable) then the figure jumps to 188 limits a day.  It's hard to believe!

http://www.dfg.ca.gov/marine/armp/pdfs/ncstatus2010.pdf


Here's a link to the CDFG Red Abalone Status Report - May 2010.

Report includes numbers through 2008.  Harvest reported up at Ft Ross/Reef in 2007-2008.  Total harvest reported was between 235-264K between 2002-2006.  Rose to 309K in 2007 and was at 265K in 2008 (Table 3).

If they are using statistics from the abalone report card system. How could it be wrong?That includes Reef too. Plus the fact that Ft Ross may be the closest point to mark on the card for areas surrounding the Ft. I talked to a warden at Reef one day and during a low tide weekend. Have you ever seen the amount of cars up there on those low tide weekends? Blow your fucking mind. Hundreds and hundtreds of cars all up and down the cost. Each car with at least 2-3 occupants. Anyway they were figuring just by the count of cars on these weekends at over a thousand cars in 2 days just at reef and the Fort. At 3 people per car. thats a lot of abalone. BrianG I like your take. Kudos to you. I once suggested to raise the size limit to 8 inches on coastside and they shot me down like a  terrorist in a parachute strapped with explosives.