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Commercial salmon fishing could soon return.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
TWO MILES OFF BODEGA BAY, Calif. _ "Hey, I think I've got a fish on," Larry Grace yelled.
He lurched for the winches on the stern of the Willie Dee II and began to haul up lines as the rampaging Pacific tossed the boat around like a child playing with a toy in a bathtub.
The silvery back of a chinook salmon _ king of Pacific game fish _ soon glinted in the green water. Waves lifted and dropped the 27-foot boat. Grace scooped for the fish with a long, wooden-handled net.
As soon as he boated the salmon, Grace turned to the radar and positioning systems on the boat's navigational console. He checked the two glowing green screens for other craft looming out there in the viscid morning fog. He needed to watch for other boats fishing in a small area off the Sonoma County coast.
Commercial salmon fishing could soon return to even busier waters.
The California Fish and Game Commission is poised to vote Friday in Sacramento on whether to allow a one-month experimental commercial chinook season in San Francisco and San Pablo bays. It would mark the first commercial harvest of salmon in waters north of Angel Island in about 50 years.
But on this recent turbulent morning, Grace put 12 hooks in the water and possessed no ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, Commercial salmon fishing could soon return.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)