San Diego Long Range Fishing Thread, Guadalupe Info 08/10/2007 in Fishing Reports; From today's San Diego Union
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OUTDOORS REPORT
Captains await Mexico permits
By Ed Zieralski
UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER
August 10, ...
With albacore tougher to find and kelp paddies delivering less and less, owners and captains of San Diego-based sportfishing boats are eagerly awaiting Mexican permits to fish Guadalupe Island.
“We need them right now; we need to get in there to fish,” said Captain Andy Cates of the Red Rooster III. Cates said his most recent five-day trip was good early for limits of yellowtail, but the kelp paddies were so devoid of fish later he anchored his anglers for rockcod below Geronimo Island.
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As of yesterday, the fleet's fishing permits to fish Guadalupe Island were not in hand. Guadalupe Island is a biosphere reserve, a conservation area since Aug. 16, 1928, making it one of the oldest reserves in Mexico. It's 150 miles off Baja's west coast and some 270 miles southwest of San Diego.
Bob Fletcher, president of the Sportfishing Association of California, had been working for more than four months to secure the permits before going on vacation Wednesday. An SAC spokesman said Juan Caro of JC Environmental Co. Inc., in San Diego, who has been representing the fleet in the permit process, returned from Ensenada yesterday morning with encouraging news.
“Hopefully we will receive the permits within 48 to 72 hours,” an SAC spokesman said. “We can't conclusively say that, but that's the hope. The big thing is that we come out of this with a process to use each year for the permits.”
John Klein, owner of the Qualifier 105, said the long-range fleet is confident it can work within Mexico's guidelines that call for more protection of its islands. Guadalupe Island, because of its large pinniped population, has served as a gathering place for great white sharks, which are protected globally through the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES). Sport boats have not targeted them in any way other than to observe the sharks as they gorge on hooked fish that anglers fail to reel away from the hungry sharks.
“Mexico is interested in making sure the islands are good places to visit and that conservation is practiced,” Klein said. “Conservation is what this long-range fleet is all about. We're on the front page of conservation with our Fishing Code of Ethics.”
The long-range fleet's self-imposed and self-regulated Fishing Code of Ethics went into place in March and calls for fishing regulations more restrictive than Mexico's. CONANP, which is the Spanish acronym for the National Commission on Natural Protected Areas, administers all biospheres in Mexico. Mexico's recent move to decentralize its federal government resulted in CONANP's regional offices, such as the one in Ensenada, having more authority. Mexico will add a new biosphere next year called the Pacific Islands Biosphere Reserve. It will include the Coronados just south of San Diego, Todos Santos, San Martín, Geronimo, Cedros, Benitos and Alijos Rocks. The creation of that new biosphere is expected to result in more delays in the permitting process for long-range sport boats.
THANKS for the update..read it earlier this morning. Hopefully many of us on 5-6 days
the end of August-September will have the Permits...SHOULD the water at the Lupe
WARM UP..and the YF move in. Certainly a lot cooler than same time last year when
the Hurricanes down south were pumping warm water up. As for the next year..
Coronados,Benitos, Cedros and other islands going into SPHERE mode..what next????
As of yesterday I was told still no permits but are to be given soon.
Was then told that Yachts can go to Ensenada and get a Lupe permit. In fact some have and the word from Lupe was COLD-Green water. So it looks like the boats are not missing out on anything.
Last edited by Nun_Ya_Bez; Aug-16-2007 at 11:05 AM.
Reason: typos
"Bob Fletcher, president of the Sportfishing Association of California, had been working for more than four months to secure the permits before going on vacation Wednesday. An SAC spokesman said Juan Caro of JC Environmental Co. Inc., in San Diego, who has been representing the fleet in the permit process, returned from Ensenada yesterday morning with encouraging news.
“Hopefully we will receive the permits within 48 to 72 hours,” an SAC spokesman said. “We can't conclusively say that, but that's the hope."
As of yesterday 8-15 the fleet still doesn't have permits; Lori of the AA and another gal are working on it day and night for the fleet, they were supposed to get them yesterday. I'm on the AA 5 day leaving Mon 8-20; I hope another boat leaving Saturday gets the first shot and reports how Lupe is on Sunday, we'll see......
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