Looks like the SC Harbor Salmon Fishing is close to an end...

http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/santacruz/ci_26034856/santa-cruz-harbor-salmon-fishing-likely-at-an

The pic was dated oct 2012

But the article is from today.  I was at the Harbor Commision meeting last night with Tim Wright.  We both spoke in favor of deveeloping a workable plan to retain fishing within the harbor for that period of weeks when it's glutted with 20+-pound kings.  As Matt Rowley from MBSTP says ""Too many salmon should not be a problem. "

Bushy

Great comment at the bottom of the article Allen.  Couldn't agree more!

It would be a very,very sad for us combat fisherman if they close down the wall

Last year 2013

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Let the kids have at it. let the adults supervise and hold on to them so they don't get pulled in.

I'm sorry to say but this article was terribly written.  Shoulda had bushy write it.

Let the kids have at it. let the adults supervise and hold on to them so they don't get pulled in.

THIS ^^^^

I'm sorry to say but this article was terribly written.  Shoulda had bushy write it.

x100. 

Garbage.  My lab retriever has better command of syntax.

Garbage.  My lab retriever has better command of syntax.

Well that's Bulls***.  Your dog only knows the word bacon and doesn't use it in the right context.

I especially liked this excerpt:

"Long-time fisher Nell Newman said she felt some of the conflicts that have cropped up around the in-harbor fishing come from the small shore space set aside for fishing. The salmon influx seemed to positively diversify the "face" of the harbor's occupants for a time, she said.
 
"It was a really mixed group of riffraff, fishermen and children and I think the harbor just didn't know what to do," said Newman, who offered at a Port District meeting Tuesday to fund a study to find a harbor fishing compromise. "Most of the people who stood up (Tuesday) said this is a tremendous resource that we have and can't we have a way to work this out."

Nell Newman is described as a "long-time fisher" but somehow has the $$ to offer to fund a study for a harbor fishing compromise?  Is she rich or something?

Oh, maybe she's Paul Newman's daughter and owns her own organic foods company.  Perhaps calling her something more befitting her accomplishments as a small business owner/entrepreneur would have been better than describing her as a "long-time fisher"?

I just read this article earlier. Very poorly written... Sad...

Interesting stuff, though.

Do any of you know which years fish have been released in the harbor? In other words, is this argument moot because the fishery just won't exist this year or the year after?

Sorry if my comment was taken as offensive. I wasn't wanting it to come out that way, but if California doesn't stop interfering with natures way these salmon will become to stupid to find home ever again.

As you all know they did dump a bunch last year in Half Moon Bay Harbor and you know good and well in a few years they will be back, which means there go a bunch of dumb salmon not going upstream to spawn.

I've seen this happen to salmon in Alaska in Resurrection Bay, but they are so numerous even a few will make it through and they will spawn, but almost 90% don't make it and for the locals, it is a free for all. Blind snagging can be fun and I have done it with friends I know. Alaska doesn't like them to go to waste. Resurrection Bay does this with both Silver and Sockeye Salmon and they return in the hundred of thousands each year and everyone knows where the schools park on the beaches.

Nell Newman spoke during public comments period, in favor of allowing people to fish for salmon when the fish are here.

Towards the end of the meeting, after the Port director presented and the commission spoke in support of closing fishing due the problems and expense, she stood up and offered to pay those expenses. 

Not "pay to fund a study."  She said "If it's a matter of expense, I'll pay for it."

OMG.  How cool is that!  Kudos to NN!

PS As a writer, I would have preferred the author didn't use the word "Fisher" repeatedly....or at all.  We PC Santa Cruz journalists use "Angler" so as to avoid charges of sexism.  Using "Fisher" suggests she is not an angler, or a fisher, or a fisherwoman, girl, babe, whatever. 

I think she covered the bases pretty well, though.  And got the story out quickly. Including digging for some external input. It's not easy to cover and explain factual based meetings like this, I'm glad I didn't have to do it. So I say "good job!"