Today I saw a spiny lobster caught (and poached) in one of the piers in SF Bay today. The people were crabbing and it was caught in a hoop net with the typical crab bait. No accurate guess on the length; I'd say it looked close to the one in Ken's article captioned "A Spiny Lobster from the Shelter Island Pier in San Diego". I did a double take because I almost thought someone had just brought their live supermarket lobster to the pier.
The crabbers kept it and left with it (along with other illegal take) shortly after. Apparently they are not really found north of Point Conception? Not sure what it was doing here.
Second "out of bounds" catch I've seen so far this year, the first being an Opaleye caught (again, not by me) off of the rocky shoreline in Marin County in February this year .
The crabbers kept it and left with it (along with other illegal take) shortly after. Apparently they are not really found north of Point Conception? Not sure what it was doing here.
Second "out of bounds" catch I've seen so far this year, the first being an Opaleye caught (again, not by me) off of the rocky shoreline in Marin County in February this year .