Water Conditions HIGH
SURFACE TEMPERATURE: LOW
71°F VISIBILITY
73°F 5'–15'
With the predominant swell out of the SSW/W this week, tide phase and onshore moderate winds, visibility should be a little cloudy in the shallows inshore, but still good along the outside of the kelp canopy in deeper water. Surf will be knee to waist high, best on south-facing beaches, yet trashy by the afternoons. Boaters should 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
JULY SUNSET
THUR 21
5:56 19:54
LENGTH OF DAY 13H 58M
SAT 23
5:57 19:53
13H 56M
MON 25
5:58 19:51
13H 53M
WED 27
6:00 19:50
13H 50M
Jake Wilsie
waves. “Once you are able to look at a wave and understand where to sit, and once you are able to master your bottom turn,” you’re on your way to being a surfer, he explains. As a native San Diegan, Wilsie believes
that younger surfers need to respect the older locals. “It’s little stuff like leaving trash on the beach or yelling at older guys in the water. [At South Mission] you are going to have to wait for waves more than most spots because there are a lot of local guys out there.” Imperial Beach is the only beach Wilsie
tends to avoid. “It’s right next to TJ, so it’s not the
cleanest. I mean, it has its days. Some- times I.B. looks like Pipeline so you just go out anyway.” Wilsie explains the love of surfing:
“There is always something or somewhere new to go. Surfing is the only sport in the
Respect the older guys at Mission Beach
world where you are completely connected with nature when you do it. You work with nature and take what is given to you without trying to make something that is not there.” — Siobhan Braun
Bluefin ban? Bluefin should become an endangered species, thus banning all fishing of the large tuna on the West Coast, says the Center for Biologi- cal Diversity. Wayne Kokow of Rancho Peñasquitos is
the executive director of the California chap- ter of the Coastal Conservation Association. He says the center is completely incorrect. “The spawning grounds for the bluefin is in Japan,” he said. According to a chart recently published
in the L.A. Times, Japan’s fleet is the larg- est taker of bluefin. The bluefins migrate
YELLOWFIN TUNA COUNT UP DRAMATICALLY
Inshore: The total angler count for the San Diego sportfishing fleet topped five thousand for the first time in 2016 last week after four thousand the week previous. The ¾ day boats are getting bonito some very large, barracuda and yellowtail at the Coronado Islands. ½ day and twilight trips are concentrating on the kelp edge and upper portion of the water column, this explains the shift from rockfish and sculpin counts to the much higher calico bass, bonita and barracuda counts for the inshore fleet. A few more white
back and forth across the ocean from Asia’s East Coast to our West Coast. A full adult reproductive bluefin should weigh at least 130 pounds. Local anglers are only catch- ing the 30- to 70-pounders. It’s the unregu- lated Asian take that is hurting the species, say sportsmen. In 2015, new regulations limited the
bluefin take from ten to two fish in local waters. “When the fish disappear, regulators assume we’ve over-fished the resource,” said Kokow. “In actuality, they’ve just moved somewhere else, like Mexico.” Kokow pointed out if the bluefin catch
on the West Coast is completely banned, it still doesn’t reduce the demand. “Because of current regulations, we don’t land and process bluefin anymore,” said Kokow. Most of the U.S. fleet is now flagged as ships from other countries, docking in China, Japan,
seabass hit the deck as there is a good spot of market squid off La Jolla, while the yellowtail continue to cruise the coast hunting mostly mackerel.
Outside: The yellowfin tuna numbers jumped up dramatically this past week. Dorado and bluefin tuna also showed well, along with a few exotics including a striped marlin and an opah. These fish are in the 1 to 3 day range and starting to bite with some authority and creating the normal ruckus on deck when the fish explode next to the boat. The “tuna shuffle” is the dance of the anglers at the rail in this type of fishing and they are stepping to it. These fish will wrap
205-pound bluefin tuna
Philippines, or Vietnam, for processing and canning. “So, we catch and export our A+ product and we get back [in the American marketplace] D+ quality.” The National Marine Fisheries Ser-
vice, a regulatory agency under NOAA, is entrusted with declaring fish species as endangered. The body had 90 days to deter- mine if the biodiversity center’s recent filing is valid and thus if bluefin will be listed as endangered. Kokow says the coastal conservation’s
national organization has full-time lobby- ists working in Washington DC to stop the complete ban on catching bluefin. Founded in 1998, the Tucson, Arizona–
based Center for Biological Diversity is a well-funded group of environmental activists claiming a membership of 625,000 people. — Ken Harrison
up and break off if not aware so keep the wind in your face, no slack in your line and your bait or your fish in front of you. The summer offshore rule to remember: “No angles, no dangles, no tangles”
7/10 – 7/16 Dock Totals: 5,516 anglers aboard 215 boats out of San Diego landings this past week caught 84 dorado, 1 skipjack tuna, 1 bigeye tuna, 326 bluefin tuna, 1,572 yellowfin tuna, 1 striped marlin, 1 opah, 2 thresher shark, 1 mako shark, 2,438 yellowtail, 2,687 calico bass, 89 sand bass, 1,284 rockfish, 20 lingcod, 21 sculpin, 1,323 bonito, 854 barracuda, 54 sheephead, 15 halibut, 7 white seabass, 80 mackerel and 1 cabezon.
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