Southern California marine sport fishing from privately-owned boats; Catch and effort for January-March 1981

Wine, Vickie and Racine, Denyse (1981) Southern California marine sport fishing from privately-owned boats; Catch and effort for January-March 1981. Long Beach, CA, California Department of Fish and Game, Marine Resources Region, (Marine Resources Administrative Report, 81-6)

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Abstract

The catch landed and effort expended by private-boat sport fishermen were studied in southern California between January and March 1981, in order to determine the impact of one segment of the sport fishery on local marine resources. Fishermen returning from fishing trips were interviewed at launch ramps, hoists, and boat rental facilities. This report contains quantitative data and statistical estimates of total effort, total catch, catch of preferred species, and length frequencies for those species whose catches are regulated by minimum size limits. An estimated 139,000 organisms were landed by 45,000 anglers and 1,900 divers. The major components of the catch were Pacific mackerel, Scomber japonicus, 29,000 landed; white croaker, Genyonemus lineatus, 27,000 landed; and Pacific bonito, Sarda chiliensis, 13,000 landed. These three species comprised one-half of the total catch. Anglers' compliance with size limit regulations was variable. Approximately 87% of all measured bass, Paralabrax spp., were legal size, but only 60% of the California halibut, Paralichthys californicus, were legal size. Divers showed much better compliance with the size limit regulations: 96% of all red abalone, Haliotis rufescens, were legal size. (Document has 24 pages)

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