62°F VISIBILITY


SURFACE TEMPERATURE: LOW


Water Conditions HIGH


64°F 5'–20'


Though a chest to overhead swell will roll through late Thursday to early Friday, the surf will be a bit cleaner and still big enough to be fun mid-week before the larger swell arrives, as well as early both weekend days before the wind gets on it. Visibility will be mixed and probably best out near the kelp canopy as the swell should stir up the inshore shallows a bit. Boaters should especially keep an extra eye out for divers near the reefs and channel edges and divers always mark yourselves and area appropriately.


Visibility based on existing conditions and NOAA predicted swell and weather conditions at press time. Check up-to-date daily visibility/ conditions at the San Diego County Lifeguard info line: 619-221-8824


Moon Calendar SUNRISE


MAR/APR SUNSET


THUR 30


6:40 19:07


LENGTH OF DAY 12H 27M


SAT 1


6:37 19:09


12H 32M


MON 3


6:34 19:10


12H 36M


WED 5


6:32 19:11


12H 39M


Brigantine plan called too big for maritime museum next door


ment agency can give permission for a restau- rant to be constructed at the old Anthony’s Fish Grotto site on Harbor Drive, former tenant Craig Ghio, of Anthony’s, weighed in with a surprising message: the site should not become another eatery. “With so many upcoming restaurant opportunities…a restaurant at this site is no longer necessary,” Ghio wrote. “I suggest the Anthony’s location be repurposed as a true front porch for the city of San Diego, an over the water extension of the County Adminis- tration’s waterfront park.” In his letter to the coastal commission,


Ghio laid out his opposition to the Brigantine plan as too big, too boxy, and incompatible with the Embarcadero and the maritime museum next door. The Anthony’s building may have historic value, he says, because it was designed by Friedrich Leibhart, a student of architect Frank Lloyd Wright.


“What a spot it will be to view fire-


works, the Parade of Lights, and Fleet Week,” Ghio wrote.


— Marty Graham


State to San Diego fishermen: Drop dead Over 100 people gathered in Pacific Beach on March 20, for the release of data from a five- year, $4 million study of the state’s South Coast Marine Protection Areas. The study began in 2011 and studied 12 areas of our shoreline’s ecosystem. Creation of these areas are closed off recreational fishing in much of the oceanfront in the San Diego area. Erin Meyer, senior scientist from the


Ocean Science Trust, the non-profit agency assigned to coordinate the data advised to group, “The purpose of the meeting was not to defeat the MPAs or debate its merits.” However, several angler groups and


stay north of the line and fish kelps and look along the high spots west of the 9 Mile Bank on the 25th. It was a good decision as they limited out on yellowtail and picked a bluefin tuna as well. The yellowtail were smallish, as was the Bluefin, though they reported some in the 80-100 pound class sighted. They shortened their next trip to a full day run to the same area as opposed to their normal 1.5 day run south. Not sure if they went outside or south yet, but the Mission Belle did well on yellowtail and picked 3 bluefin tuna on their ¾ day run on the 25th. As long as the fish are in US waters, there is no passport needed while the run to the grounds


“What exactly are you monitoring?”


charter boat operators had questions. “What exactly are you monitoring?” asked Doug, a crewmember aboard the Black Jack charter boat out of Dana Landing in Mission Bay. The study, from data gathered by Sea Grant California, focused on different phases in twelve areas, including ecosystem, tides, kelp forest, spiny lobster, and sea birds. “Who is Sea Grant?” asked Steve Mote of


Encinitas, a lifelong angler and board member of Coastal Conservation Association. Sea Grant is an academic organization


housed at California’s coastal universities, and funded primarily by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the California Deptartment of Fish and Wildlife, which worked with about 40 other government agencies and non-profit organizations in collecting the data. In the closed off habitat, where many


recreational anglers would like to fish, the study noted, “variability from year to year


is much shorter; both bode well for an economical trip out to get some sashimi-grade yellowtail and possibly get in on a good bluefin bite.


Top performing boats of the week:


3/25: The San Diego returned from a ¾ day run with 37 anglers aboard that put 150 yellowtail in the gunnysacks. 3 bluefin tuna and 67 yellowtail were caught by the 22 anglers aboard the Mission Belle’s ¾ day run.


3/24 : The San Diego on a ¾ day run with 12 anglers aboard


& site to site is the norm in kelp and shallow rock ecosystems.” So since 2011, there was really no accurate baseline of the numerous fish species charted in the protected areas. There was good news. Shad Catarius, a


commercial lobster fisherman, was on the study group for the spiny lobster issue. “For the first time, we had scientists and fishermen sitting in the same room. Working together, we found the resource to be much better off than we anticipated. We discovered that female lobsters, once thought to become egg- bearing at 71 millimeters, actually start as small as 50 millimeters. There hadn’t been research since the 1950s.” The Marine Protection Area data col-


lection is ongoing. But the massive report, released to the public at five meetings held this week from San Diego to Santa Barbara, can be found at OceanSpaces.org/scsotr. — Ken Harrison


called in a limit of 60 yellowtail. The Malihini returned from their ¾ day run carrying 13 anglers with a catch of (limits) 65 yellowtail and 28 rockfish.


3/21: 14 anglers aboard the New Seaforth’s local ½ day run scored on limits of (140) rockfish.


3/19: the Dominator called in with 80 yellowtail and 85 rockfish for the 17 anglers aboard their 1.5 day Colonet run. The Relentless took 21 anglers to the Colonet area and returned with a nice mix of 178 rockfish, 16 lingcod and 16 yellowtail in the hold.


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