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for boats to park on the open water will return in the near future. The anchorage was at the north end of the main channel in Marina del Rey, according to boater Jon Nahhas. “There is no anchorage inside


Marina del Rey Harbor and the outside anchorage, 1,000 feet from the south entrance to the jetty, doesn’t provide ‘Safe Harbor,’” Nahhas said. “We’ve contacted the Coast Guard, NOAA, and the Coastal Commission about what we consider to be an unlawful county code moving boaters into harm’s way without shelter. The county’s response to our concerns is that visiting boaters can rent the guest slips at Burton Chace Park (I think they are at $1.50 a foot now) and that if the Coast Guard issues a small craft warning (high winds) they will aide boaters in getting from the illegal outside anchorage to the slips they are renting at Burton Chace Park.”


Anchorages are a resource & a liability


Carter Ford, a boater who lives in


Newport Beach, said anchorages are an important resource for boaters. “Anchorages are one of the resources that harbors offer. They provide safe haven from the at times stormy ocean; very important for mariners’ safety,” Ford told The Log in an email. “They are more economical than marinas, which makes boating, especially


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boaters, local or otherwise who might wish to arrive in their vessels to dine at the res- taurant. Are they not welcome or expected, or is the article and/or the underlying press release simply incomplete?


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From Our Facebook page Make fi shing affordable


The Log: A pair of bills are on the legisla- tive fl oor in #Sacramento, both proposing to make #fi shing more accessible to #vet-


A stretch of ocean just below Stearns Wharf in Santa Barbara is used as an anchor- age and a popular destination for boaters visiting the Central California coast.


long-term, more affordable.” Ford echoed Avery’s comments about anchorages providing boat- ers with open space on the water. “Boats staying in [anchorages]


are more spread out than in mari- nas, and have appeal for aesthetic and environmental reasons, to locals as well as visitors,” Ford said. “I’ve chosen to spend some nights in both Newport anchorages just for the joy of overnight escapes.” However, anchorages, depending upon whom you ask, could be a liability. A handful of Newport Beach resi- dents who have waterfront homes near a proposed public anchorage have complained of such infrastructure limiting their views of the harbor. In 2008 the Port of San Diego shut down A-8 Anchorage near National


erans. Are these two proposals enough to spur increased interest in recreational angling? What else needs to be done to make fi shing a popular activity?


Nathan Zane Schaefer: A California fi shing license is not exactly affordable to many people these days. For a typical family: two adults and a 16-year-old child it would cost $150 just to be able to go fi sh- ing. This is not even considering the pass to get into the lake, as well as all of the other unavoidable expenses. Also many areas where people grew up


fi shing are now closed for sake of envi- ronmental dogma. Often the distinction between preservation and conservation is no longer present. I have experienced this fi rst hand.


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City, which was free and open to boaters for long-term use. The unlimited, free anchorage was report- edly home to several derelict vessels and too costly to maintain. Harbor Patrol report- edly complained of a steady dose of criminal activities occurring in the area. There are also ques- tions of whether a boater might


move from anchorage to anchor- age to avoid paying slip fees. Ford said shifting to dif-


ferent anchorages to avoid slip fees is not practical. “Boaters aren’t ‘abusing the system’ to avoid paying slip fees by moving around. Slips are often unavailable as well as costly. There’s signifi cant time and effort involved in relocating a boat from one anchorage to another (often to a distant harbor),” Ford said. Kronman echoed similar


thoughts, saying, “There is really no system to abuse” of Santa Barbara Harbor’s anchorage. Waterfront residents and anchor- age-using boaters can co-exist, according to Ford, so long as the proper education and enforce- ment measures are in place.


spent fi shing on the pier with my dad and a couple friends was where it was at. Now days a glowing screen has


replaced outdoor activities and consumed so many children’s lives. These are some of the reasons outdoor activities sadly have become mere tales heard by children from their parents of days past.


The problem with assess- ing the hatchery program


The Log: White Sea Bass were on the verge of extinction. However a collabora- tive effort of state offi cials, scientists and nonprofi ts helped the fi sh species grow its population to healthy numbers. What worked and how can we apply


this replenishment program to other endangered species?


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“Anchorages are not of them- selves a nuisance,” Ford said. “If shore side residents are offended by looking at boats in the harbor they should have bought on a golf course. These are public waters. “Yes, harbor users of all types need to be good neighbors, including not being noisy,” Ford continued. “The bay-boat late night cruisers are far and away the worst offenders, they are having a good time and either forget or maybe don’t care that noise car- ries dramatically across the water.”


Spreading the word


Newport Beach is contemplat- ing a second public anchorage west of Lido Island. The anchorage could become a permanent fi xture if enough boaters use the venue. Ultimately anchorage use comes down to informing boat- ers where such boat parking lots exist, placing them nearby local (and accessible) amenities, and keeping regulations reasonable. “The way local offi cials can make them used more is by publicizing them, and providing amenities such as shore access,” Ford said. “Also allowing limited side tie-ups, up to three boats say, can be appealing. This uses space much better and should be allowed. (This is now considered technically a raft-up, which is too restrictive.)”


Chris Winter: The inability to collect data is the problem factor in assessing the hatchery program, each [fi sh] when released is implanted with a chip in its head and then when caught again that data is recorded. Problem is fi sherman don’t comply nor need comply with saving the head for fi sheries research. At pres- ent the data shows a less than 1 percent survival rate of hatchery fi sh, predation issues being huge. So are we maintaining a fi sh breeding or fi sh feeding program? I believe the change in fi shing regulations, elimination of gill nets and the MPA have had better effect for the dollar than this hatchery program.


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