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localboy
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 Posted: Sat Apr 10, 2021 10:54 am Post subject: 2021 spot shrimp |
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Dates now posted on WDFW website. It ain't pretty.
In 7 west, for example, no longer do we have the open seven days a week until the quota is met. We now get only 4 days in mid-May, 4 days in early June and 4 days in mid-June. So that means 7 west will be a zoo, exactly like 8-1/8-2 is every year.
Idiots run this state.
https://wdfw.wa.gov/fishing/shellfishing-regulations/shrimp/areas
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robhwa
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| Posted: Sat Apr 10, 2021 11:00 am Post subject: Re: 2021 spot shrimp |
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| localboy wrote: | Dates now posted on WDFW website. It ain't pretty.
In 7 west, for example, no longer do we have the open seven days a week until the quota is met. We now get only 4 days in mid-May, 4 days in early June and 4 days in mid-June. So that means 7 west will be a zoo, exactly like 8-1/8-2 is every year.
Idiots run this state.
https://wdfw.wa.gov/fishing/shellfishing-regulations/shrimp/areas |
Well, you could be in area 13. No shrimp this year and no crab for the last 3 years, despite an abundance of red rock crabs. WDFW bases the total closure on Dungeness. |
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smckean (Tosca)
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| Posted: Sat Apr 10, 2021 12:34 pm Post subject: |
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| localboy wrote: | | Idiots run this state. |
Well, maybe not complete idiots. All these dates have pretty favorable tides. I suspect that is not by chance.
P.S. Mark, I think you should run for political office. Given that you believe that our existing government is attempting to destroy this country (your words in another thread), perhaps you can roll up your sleeves and help to turn things around.
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DayBreak
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| Posted: Sat Apr 10, 2021 12:39 pm Post subject: |
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Mark,
Thanks for the information. We don't fish in Wa. but will certainly avoid using the launch ramps on those dates.
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T.R. Bauer
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| Posted: Sat Apr 10, 2021 1:15 pm Post subject: |
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| You get 12 days of shrimping? Holy cow that really is restrictive! |
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smckean (Tosca)
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| Posted: Sat Apr 10, 2021 1:25 pm Post subject: |
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| Ha! Some areas in the Puget Sound (like Elliott Bay near Seattle) only get 3 hours for the entire announced season! |
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T.R. Bauer
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| Posted: Sat Apr 10, 2021 1:59 pm Post subject: |
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| Shrimping is open in PWS from 4-15 until 9-15 with a limit of how many can you catch? I feeling pretty fortunate right now, since shrimping is one of my favorite pastimes on the water. |
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skiptowns98033
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| Posted: Sun Apr 11, 2021 1:00 pm Post subject: |
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| I'm hoping they will be sampling, test fishing and using ramp counts to get a handle on the effort, confirm quotas and be giving us more dates in July and August. |
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skiptowns98033
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| I'm hoping they will be sampling, test fishing and using ramp counts to get a handle on the effort, confirm quotas and be giving us more dates in July and August. |
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PaulNBriannaLynn
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| Posted: Mon Apr 12, 2021 8:52 am Post subject: |
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Remember when we used to shrimp all summer long in area 7 west? Yeah those were the days. Limiting to such small time windows means ramps are overcrowded and people making unsafe decisions to get their one chance. I've seen and experienced a few of those off Camano Island on some of those short days. Our last time out a very animated captain crashed into the state park dock sending his wife into the water, so he slams the throttle into reverse, powering into me and ripping the davit right off our c-dory. All completely unnecessary but goes with the territory on days like that. It's just chaos sometimes.
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localboy
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| Posted: Sat Apr 17, 2021 6:37 pm Post subject: |
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| PaulNBriannaLynn wrote: | | Remember when we used to shrimp all summer long in area 7 west? Yeah those were the days. Limiting to such small time windows means ramps are overcrowded and people making unsafe decisions to get their one chance. I've seen and experienced a few of those off Camano Island on some of those short days. Our last time out a very animated captain crashed into the state park dock sending his wife into the water, so he slams the throttle into reverse, powering into me and ripping the davit right off our c-dory. All completely unnecessary but goes with the territory on days like that. It's just chaos sometimes. |
Years ago I was out in 8-1/8-2 when a grandfather made a decision to overload his tiny lake boat (skiff), got swamped and capsized...his 13 or 14 yr old grandson drowned. This happened off of Camano Head and the weather and conditions were crappy for us in a 25. We heard the radio traffic, saw the USCG Dolphin helo race over us and drop the rescue swimmer. But too late. Sobering and sad. The Everett ramps were a zoo. That was the last time I ever went there to shrimp.
The SJ's were always good because the season was spread out so the pressure was lessened. Some weekdays you could count the boats [where we go] on one hand. We usually make a mini vacation out of it. 3-4 days up there with shrimping taking up maybe two mornings. Last year on day two, we were done by 10:00 hours, the numbers where that good.
This year I imagine Squallicom is going to be a zoo. |
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T.R. Bauer
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| Posted: Mon Apr 19, 2021 11:15 am Post subject: |
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| Harvested 5 gallons of tails this weekend. |
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starcrafttom
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| Posted: Mon Apr 19, 2021 11:20 am Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | Harvested 5 gallons of tails this weekend. |
yep it's official.. I hate you.. Really wish we could do the same here. I do not know why we are being restricted so much. having talked to some wdfw guys and some tribal guys the shrimp stocks are way up. catches are way up per pot? it makes not sense at all to cut these many days. It's not a science based decision from what I can tell. but very little at wdfw is these days.
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smckean (Tosca)
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| Posted: Tue Apr 20, 2021 9:07 pm Post subject: |
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| Tom wrote: | | It's not a science based decision from what I can tell. but very little at wdfw is these days. |
I'm curious.....
If the biologists at the WDFW aren't making their decisions based on science, in what realm do you think they are deciding? |
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T.R. Bauer
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| Posted: Wed Apr 21, 2021 10:34 pm Post subject: |
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| The answer might be to please commfish, but I do not know that. But, I do know that happens a ton of places....like here..... |
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