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Here's Why","publishDate":1712224818,"format":"standard","headTitle":"California’s Beloved Abalone Sea Snails Are Struggling. Here’s Why | KQED","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"#episode-transcript\">View the full episode transcript.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The beaches of Northern California can be treasure troves for keen-eyed visitors. Surrounded by grass-covered cliffs and dramatic rocky outcrops, walkers can often find seashells, driftwood and other riches on the cool, wet sand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Bay Curious listener Lorraine Page moved to Pescadero about 30 years ago, she spent a lot of time hunting for such treasures at the beach. A family doctor by day, beachcombing was her way to unwind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriouspodcastinfo]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While she came across all sorts of treasures, she was looking for one thing in particular: abalone shells. For her, finding one of those beautiful, iridescent mollusks signified a day well spent on a Northern California beach. \u003ca href=\"https://www.montereybayaquarium.org/animals/animals-a-to-z/abalone\">Abalone are mollusks, essentially sea snails\u003c/a> that can grow up to 10 inches in diameter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If she was especially lucky, Page might even find what are called \u003ci>pearls\u003c/i> attached to the outside of an abalone shell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The abalone makes this pearl to try to protect the shell,” she said. “And it’s beautiful.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the abalone perceives a threat, like a parasite, it surrounds it with nacre, also known as mother-of-pearl, to wall off the intruder. Over eight to 10 years, a beautiful iridescent pearl forms on the abalone shell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Page found \u003ca href=\"https://www.purepearls.com/pages/pearl-types-abalone-pearls\">one of these rare wild beauties\u003c/a>, she brought it to a jeweler in Pescadero, who turned it into one-of-a-kind necklaces or earrings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But over time, Page stopped finding them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It used to be consistent. At certain beaches in Pescadero, you’d find abalone shells,” she said. “And now I just can’t. They’re not around anymore.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She hasn’t found a whole abalone shell in over 10 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>Abalone’s long history\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11976838\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11976838\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240220-ABALONE-64-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240220-ABALONE-64-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240220-ABALONE-64-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240220-ABALONE-64-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240220-ABALONE-64-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240220-ABALONE-64-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240220-ABALONE-64-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Doug Jung holds a red abalone shell, or a trophy as they are called, at his home in Santa Rosa on Feb. 20, 2024. A friend gave the shell to him after his house burned down and he lost all of his belongings in the Tubbs Fire. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Abalone has lived off of California’s coastline for \u003ca href=\"https://caseagrant.ucsd.edu/news/abalone-the-story-of-a-treasured-mollusk-on-the-california-coast\">at least 70 million years\u003c/a>. The ancient mollusk has always held deep meaning for Northern Californians, going back to the very first humans who lived here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When humans came to California, they started using abalone right away — initially for food, but soon thereafter also for tools,” said Ann Vileisis, an environmental historian and author of the book \u003ca href=\"https://osupress.oregonstate.edu/index.php/book/abalone\">\u003ci>Abalone: The Remarkable History and Uncertain Future of California’s Iconic Shellfish\u003c/i>.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Indigenous people also used abalone shells for decoration and ceremonial purposes. During ceremonial dances, people wore beautifully elaborate regalia with abalone shells prominently displayed. They not only looked beautiful, Vileisis said, but they also added an incredible clacking sound, which helped to bring the dance to life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when European settlers arrived on the West Coast, they started treating abalone like a commodity to be traded and sold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the late 18th century, Spanish settlers traded abalone shells for sea otter fur as part of the Pacific fur trade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, in the mid-to-late-19th century, Chinese and Japanese immigrants — who were familiar with abalone, being from the other side of the Pacific Ocean — began shipping dried abalone and shells back to China and Japan, where they were used in soups and congees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That was actually probably among the first California global trades,” Vileisis said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This was also a time of extreme racism and xenophobia in the U.S. In 1882, Congress passed the \u003ca href=\"https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/chinese-exclusion-act#:~:text=The%20Chinese%20Exclusion%20Act%20was,Arthur.\">Chinese Exclusion Act\u003c/a>, which barred Chinese immigrants from entering the U.S. And in1913, the California legislature passed a ban on exporting abalone, allegedly due to concerns over overfishing, though today it is largely seen as a racist law meant to target the growing prosperity of Chinese and Japanese fishermen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But abalone fishing didn’t stop. And in fact, over time, more and more Americans developed a culinary appreciation for California’s iconic sea snail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is absolutely the best thing you can ever eat,” said Doug Jung, a Santa Rosa resident and former abalone diver. “There was nothing I’d rather eat than abalone. I mean, it was just so good.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11976836\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11976836\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240220-ABALONE-61-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Man in checked shirt and sun hat stands in front of a truck with a boat loaded in the back.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240220-ABALONE-61-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240220-ABALONE-61-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240220-ABALONE-61-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240220-ABALONE-61-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240220-ABALONE-61-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240220-ABALONE-61-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Doug Jung stands next to his boat in front of his home in Santa Rosa on Feb. 20, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Jung’s favorite way to cook abalone is to tenderize it with a wooden mallet, cover it with flour, then throw it in a wok and deep fry it for about six minutes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s crunchy on the outside, and you can cut it with a fork easily,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beyond feasting on abalone, diving for it became a way of life for Jung. He learned when he was in high school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s the adventure,” he said. “Every time you go out, when you come back, you say, ‘Cheated death one more time.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Abalone diving is one of the most dangerous kinds of sport fishing. It’s illegal to use scuba gear to dive for abalone due to concerns of overfishing. So, while holding their breath, divers have to dive down to the ocean floor or navigate rocky outcrops, scrape off the abalone without harming them, and then swim back up to the surface. And if that weren’t enough, they also must avoid getting tangled in kelp and encounters with other sea creatures. An octopus almost drowned Jung one time, he said. But despite the risks, for Jung, diving for abalone was totally worth it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This was my passion,” he said. “More than anything else, abalone diving was my absolute passion.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11976837\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11976837\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240220-ABALONE-63-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240220-ABALONE-63-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240220-ABALONE-63-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240220-ABALONE-63-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240220-ABALONE-63-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240220-ABALONE-63-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240220-ABALONE-63-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photos of Doug Jung with friends and family during and after abalone dives hang on the wall of his home in Santa Rosa on Feb. 20, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>Where are all the abalone?\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Just like Lorraine Page, our question-asker, Jung has also noticed the decline in abalone. In fact, he’s not even allowed to dive for them anymore because they are now considered critically endangered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around 2014, a big climate change-driven marine heatwave hit the coast of Northern California. The increased water temperature impacted sea life in all kinds of ways, most notably killing much of the local kelp forest. And since kelp is a staple food source for many sea animals, other oceanic species, like abalone, also died off in large numbers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, the Northern California sea star population was hit hard by a disease called \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/im/swan/ssws.htm\">wasting syndrome\u003c/a>. The warmer marine temperatures made the sea stars more susceptible to the disease and also allowed the disease to proliferate more quickly. Sea stars are predators of sea urchins, so when the sea stars started to decline, purple urchins thrived. And purple urchins devour kelp. The booming urchin population ultimately ate through more than 95% of Northern California’s coastal kelp, causing a near-total kelp forest collapse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without the kelp, millions of red abalone — Northern California’s native species — died of starvation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I go out there and dive, it makes me cry because the only thing I see is urchin barrens,” Jung said. “This is a horror for us who understood the beauty of what we lost.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>Hope for another abalone species\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Red abalone isn’t the only type of abalone facing potential extinction in California. In fact, all west coast abalone species are \u003ca href=\"https://www.ucdavis.edu/climate/news/all-west-coast-abalone-added-endangered-iucns-red-list\">listed\u003c/a> as critically endangered or endangered \u003ca href=\"https://www.iucnredlist.org/\">on the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s Red List of Threatened Species\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Enter the UC Davis Bodega Marine Lab white abalone captive breeding program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11976835\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11976835\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240220-ABALONE-47-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240220-ABALONE-47-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240220-ABALONE-47-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240220-ABALONE-47-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240220-ABALONE-47-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240220-ABALONE-47-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240220-ABALONE-47-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alyssa Frederick, director of the White Abalone Captive Breeding Program, poses for a portrait at the UC Davis-Bodega Marine Laboratory in Bodega Bay on Feb. 20, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The program started over a decade ago when scientists realized that white abalone populations had gotten so low they couldn’t reproduce in the wild anymore. Native to Southern California, the white abalone lives in deep water, but in the 1960s–1970s, as soon as diving technology allowed for deeper water fishing, humans overfished them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scientists have been working to breed white abalone in captivity under controlled conditions in order to release them into the wild and hopefully jump-start reproduction in the wild again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The spawns — where they induce breeding between male and female abalone — are exciting events that only happen once a year. I visited the lab just days after the most recent one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11976831\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11976831\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240220-ABALONE-10-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240220-ABALONE-10-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240220-ABALONE-10-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240220-ABALONE-10-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240220-ABALONE-10-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240220-ABALONE-10-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240220-ABALONE-10-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alyssa Frederick, director of the White Abalone Captive Breeding Program, points to a group of white abalone in a lab at the UC Davis-Bodega Marine Laboratory in Bodega Bay on Feb. 20, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We had 6.7 million eggs last week,” said Alyssa Frederick, director of the lab’s white abalone captive breeding program. “It was the largest spawn we’ve had in the program since 2019. I was really excited.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A ton of planning and coordination goes into a spawn, Frederick said. The abalone basically sits in buckets of chemicals, mostly hydrogen peroxide, which causes a cascade of hormones in their bodies that tell them it’s time to spawn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Abalone are broadcast spawners, meaning they release their eggs and sperm into the water column and form larvae from there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was literally pacing my living room like someone waiting in a maternity ward for someone to give birth,” Frederick said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, the program releases about 5,000 abalone into the wild per year. In order to save the species, models show they need to be releasing twice that amount.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We still are an order of magnitude below what’s required to save the species,” Frederick said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11976832\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11976832\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240220-ABALONE-25-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240220-ABALONE-25-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240220-ABALONE-25-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240220-ABALONE-25-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240220-ABALONE-25-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240220-ABALONE-25-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240220-ABALONE-25-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alyssa Frederick, director of the White Abalone Captive Breeding Program, holds a white abalone at the UC Davis-Bodega Marine Laboratory in Bodega Bay on Feb. 20, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>‘Double whammy’ for red abalone\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The white abalone captive breeding program holds promise for the future of that species. As for red abalone, the situation is more complicated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In white abalone, you have lots of nice habitat,” said Laura Rogers-Bennett, a senior environmental scientist with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife. “You have kelp, you just don’t have white abalone. But red abalone has the double whammy of [needing] kelp \u003ci>and\u003c/i> red abalone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s part of the reason there is no captive breeding program for red abalone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11981674\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11981674\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/red-abalone.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/red-abalone.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/red-abalone-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/red-abalone-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/red-abalone-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/red-abalone-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Abalone in a kelp forest near Mendocino, California, surrounded by dark red algae. \u003ccite>(Lt. John Crofts, NOAA Corps., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But there are some programs in place to try to save the kelp and, ultimately, the abalone. For example, since sea urchins are such a scourge on the kelp, state Fish and Wildlife officials have allowed commercial and recreational divers to harvest them in select areas. With fewer sea urchins, Rogers-Bennett said, the kelp might recover.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the program is still too small to have much impact, Rogers-Bennett said. There are just too many sea urchins. As a lifelong diver and ocean creature enthusiast, she said the work can be discouraging.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To go back to a spot and see a particular rock that I visited at least once a year for 20 years, and to know that that spot is where there used to be tons of red abalone and to see it just covered with urchin and no algae at all, it’s heartbreaking,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While there’s certainly no lack of enthusiasm, she said her program needs more financial support if it has a chance of saving the abalone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Obviously, in red abalone, we have the passion,” she said. “I think there’s a chance that we can create some of these pockets of kelp forest and have them come back in these kelp oases. And that will be the start of restoration areas for the whole coast.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as human-caused climate change continues to change ecosystems, there’s no telling when the next marine heatwave might hit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriousquestion]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"episode-transcript\">Episode Transcript\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>[Sounds of ocean waves and seagulls]\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/b> When Lorraine Page moved to Pescadero in the ’90s, she spent a lot of time at the beach. It was her way to unwind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Lorraine Page: \u003c/b>I’m a family doctor on the coast. So I’m busy. But on, on weekends and such, that would be an outlet for me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>She would comb the beach and explore the tide pools for hours, looking for one thing in particular: abalone shells.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>[Magical beach music begins]\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Abalone are mollusks… basically big sea snails, up to 10 inches wide, that live off our northern California coastline. You might recognize their shells, which are iridescent… somehow every color of the rainbow all at once.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lorraine sought them out because sometimes, if she was lucky, on those abalone shells she would find an abalone \u003ci>pearl.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Lorraine Page: \u003c/b>They’re these beautiful little pearls that show up in the shell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>When Lorraine found one, she’d bring it to a jeweler in Pescadero who would polish it up and turn it into a one-of-a-kind necklace or earrings. But over time, Lorraine has stopped finding them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Lorraine Page: \u003c/b>It used to be consistent that certain beaches in Pescadero, you’d find abalone shells, and I just can’t. They’re not around anymore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>She says she hasn’t found a whole abalone shell in more than 10 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Lorraine Page: \u003c/b>That’s just my simple question is, do we know why there’s not as many abalone?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>[Bay Curious theme music starts] \u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>I’m Olivia Allen Price and you’re listening to Bay Curious. On today’s episode: what happened to all the abalone? And can we bring them back?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>[Theme\u003c/i> \u003ci>music ends]\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/b> Where did all the abalone go? We sent reporter Dana Cronin to find out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Dana Cronin:\u003c/b> Before I get to answering Lorraine’s question, I think we could all use a little history lesson. Because, oh man, do abalone have a long history here in Northern California?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ann Vileisis: \u003c/b>Abalone have lived on the California coast for actually 70 million years, at the very least.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Dana Cronin: \u003c/b>Ann Vileisis is an environmental historian who’s authored a whole book on abalone. She says the ancient mollusk has always held deep meaning for us Northern Californians… going back to the \u003ci>very first \u003c/i>humans who lived here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ann Vileisis: \u003c/b>When humans came to California, they started using abalone right away, initially for food, but soon thereafter also for tools\u003ci>.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Dana Cronin: \u003c/b>Indigenous people also used abalone shells for decoration and ceremonial purposes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>[Sounds of a Pomo Indian dance performance featuring clacking abalone shells]\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Dana Cronin: \u003c/b>During ceremonial dances, for example… abalone shells were a part of the regalia. They not only looked beautiful — they also added this incredible clacking sound… bringing the dance to life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when European settlers arrived on the West Coast, they started treating abalone like a commodity… to be traded and sold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>[Music starts]\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the late 18th century, Spanish settlers traded abalone shells for sea otter fur as part of the Pacific fur trade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, in the mid-to-late-1800s, Chinese and Japanese immigrants — who were very familiar with abalone being from the other side of the Pacific Ocean — began shipping dried abalone and shells back to China and Japan, where they were used in soups and congees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ann Vileisis: \u003c/b>That was actually probably one of the, you know, among the first California global trades was in abalone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Dana Cronin: \u003c/b>This was also a time of extreme racism and xenophobia in the U.S., around when Congress passed the Chinese Exclusion Act, which barred Chinese immigrants from entering the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1913, the California legislature passed a ban on exporting abalone, which they \u003ci>said\u003c/i> was due to concerns of overfishing. In reality, the ban was part of the larger anti-immigrant sentiment of the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>[Music fades out]\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But abalone fishing didn’t stop. And in fact, over time, more and more Americans realized how delicious these sea snails are.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Doug Jung: \u003c/b>It is absolutely the best thing you can ever eat. There was nothing I’d rather eat than abalone. I mean, it was just so good.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Dana Cronin: \u003c/b>This is Doug Jung. He lives in Santa Rosa and has been abalone diving up and down the Northern California coast since he was in high school — over 50 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says abalone is naturally buttery and salty… and there’s something about its texture that is totally unique and delicious.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Doug Jung: \u003c/b>We just pound it with a wooden mallet until it’s soft. And then we throw it in a wok for six minutes and deep fry it and it comes out. It doesn’t suck up all the oil. You have it covered with flour and things. So it’s crunchy on the outside. You can cut it with a fork easily.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Dana Cronin: \u003c/b>Like, imagine the most tender, melt-in-your-mouth scallop you’ve ever had.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But beyond just eating it… over the years, abalone diving became a way of life for Doug. It was addicting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Doug Jung: \u003c/b>It’s the adventure. Every time you go out, you know when you come back, you say ‘Cheated death one more time.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>[Music starts]\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Dana Cronin: \u003c/b>Cheated death one more time because abalone diving is one of the more dangerous sport fishing activities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s because it was illegal to use scuba gear to dive for abalone due to concerns of overfishing. So divers have to dive down to the ocean floor or navigate rocky outcrops — where abalone suction themselves — scrape them off without harming them… and then swim to the surface \u003ci>all in one breath\u003c/i>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>[Music fades out]\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not to mention avoiding getting tangled in kelp… or encountering other sea critters. Doug tells me about a time he had a run-in with an octopus:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Doug Jung: \u003c/b>He only had two tentacles on me … but with those two tentacles — and I was in my prime in my 30s — I barely got off those two tentacles before coming up. And, I’m thinking if you had three on, I’d be dead\u003ci>.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Dana Cronin: \u003c/b>Doug says, despite the risks, diving for abalone was totally worth it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Doug Jung: \u003c/b>I feel very, very fortunate to be able to experience this because this was my passion. More than anything else, more than inventing new technology, more than going fishing, more than hiking. Going up from the into the Sierras. Abalone diving was my absolute passion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Dana Cronin: \u003c/b>But just like Lorraine, Doug has also noticed the decline in abalone. In fact, he’s not even allowed to dive for abalone anymore, because abalone are now considered critically endangered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To understand how we got here, we need to rewind the clock about 10 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>[Music starts]\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Dana Cronin: \u003c/b>Around 2014, there was a big marine heatwave, driven no doubt by climate change. That heat wave impacted Northern California’s coastline in all kinds of ways. Most notably, killing much of the kelp forest off our coast here. Kelp is the main food source for many ocean species — including, you guessed it, abalone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The marine heat wave also introduced a disease called wasting syndrome… which wiped out much of the sea star population. Like in any ecosystem, when one species is impacted, other species along the food chain are impacted, too. Sea stars prey on sea urchins. So when the sea stars started to decline, purple urchins were without a predator… and they \u003ci>thrived. \u003c/i>So much so that they ate through more than 95 percent of our coastal kelp… causing a near-total kelp forest collapse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>[Music out]\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that’s the root issue here. Because without the kelp, millions of red abalone — the kind that’s native to Northern California — have died due to starvation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Doug Jung: \u003c/b>It’s dead. When I go out there and dive up. It makes me cry because the only thing I see is urchin barrens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Dana Cronin: \u003c/b>While Doug used to dive down and see this lush kelp forest, teeming with fish and snails and sea stars… now, with the kelp mostly gone, it’s almost like a desert landscape, with urchins covering the ocean floor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Doug Jung: \u003c/b>This is a horror for us. For us who understood the beauty of what we lost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Dana Cronin: \u003c/b>So that’s the sad answer to Lorraine’s question.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But now, you might be wondering: is there hope for the future of abalone?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>[Rushing mechanical background sound fade in]\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Dana Cronin: \u003c/b>To answer that question, we’re going to take a tour of the UC Davis Bodega Marine Lab, a facility in Bodega Bay that \u003ci>breeds \u003c/i>abalone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Alyssa Frederick: \u003c/b>When we’re doing spawning, what we do is we’ll take an animal out and we’ll check its gonads.\u003ci> \u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Dana Cronin: \u003c/b>This is Alyssa Frederick. She directs the white abalone \u003ci>captive breeding program\u003c/i> here at the lab.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She holds up a five-year-old female abalone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Alyssa Frederick: \u003c/b>So they have two eyes on stocks and then they also have their like antenna. That’s curled up underneath. One’s curled up underneath, and one’s right here. Yeah. Pretty cute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Dana Cronin: \u003c/b>We’re in a lab holding room full of tanks housing abalone of all ages and sizes. This little lady, in particular, looks like a giant, oval-shaped snail with a big shell that sits flat across her back. Her two eyes are like tentacles, feeling their way around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The spawns — where they induce breeding between the male and female abalone — are a really big deal. They only happen once a year, and I’m visiting just days after the most recent one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Alyssa Frederick: \u003c/b>We had 6.7 million eggs last week. It was the largest spawn we’ve had in the program since 2019. I was really excited.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>[Music starts]\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Dana Cronin: \u003c/b>A lot of planning and coordination goes into a spawn. The abalone basically sit in buckets of chemicals, namely hydrogen peroxide, which causes a cascade of hormones in their bodies that tell them it’s time to spawn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alyssa says they set the mood — so to speak — in other ways too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Alyssa Frederick: \u003c/b>We had the lights off for most of it. We did it in the evening, which, like abalone, are more active in the evening. So my line of thinking is that why not stack the odds in our favor and do it then?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Dana Cronin: \u003c/b>Abalone are broadcast spawners, meaning they release their eggs and sperm into the water column and form larvae from there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alyssa says it’s an intense process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Alyssa Frederick:\u003c/b> I mean, the joke, like, I was literally pacing my living room like someone waiting in a maternity ward for someone to give birth\u003ci>.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>[Music fade out]\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Dana Cronin: \u003c/b>On the day I’m visiting, the little baby abalone are starting to settle, which means they have to flip themselves over and find a place to settle on the bottom of the tank.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We watch them through a microscope:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Alyssa Frederick: \u003c/b>Wee! Aww. So cute. Dancing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Dana Cronin: \u003c/b>Now it’s important to note that these are \u003ci>white \u003c/i>abalone. Remember the ones we’ve mostly been talking about so far are red abalone… which are native to \u003ci>Northern\u003c/i> California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>White abalone were more common down in southern California. However, in the ‘60s and ‘70s, as soon as diving technology allowed us to fish deeper water species, we overfished them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Alyssa Frederick: \u003c/b>So we overfished, over 99% of what was out in the wild. It was pretty significant. Like, pretty much all of them.\u003ci> \u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Dana Cronin: \u003c/b>White abalone was the first marine invertebrate species to be listed on the Endangered Species Act. There were so few left they weren’t able to reproduce in the wild anymore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So scientists decided to bring some into captivity, have them reproduce in safe, controlled conditions, and then release them into the wild. They release them when they’re about a year old by placing them in these small cages on the ocean floor and opening up the door.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The goal is to create enough of them out in the wild that they start reproducing on their own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Right now, they’re releasing about five thousand abalone into the wild per year. In order to save the species, models show they need to be releasing twice that amount.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Alyssa Frederick: \u003c/b>Right now we still are an order of magnitude below what’s required to save the species.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Dana Cronin: \u003c/b>But, she says, they’re also an order of magnitude \u003ci>above\u003c/i> where they started.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>[Music starts]\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So there’s some hope for white abalone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for our red abalone here in Northern California… the situation is more complicated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Laura Rogers-Bennett: \u003c/b>I think the red abalone problem is more difficult.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Dana Cronin: \u003c/b>This is Laura Rogers-Bennett, a senior environmental scientist with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife. She also works at the Bodega Marine Lab and specializes in \u003ci>red\u003c/i> abalone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says while white abalone struggle in numbers, they at least have a healthy kelp forest to return to down south.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Laura Rogers-Bennett:\u003c/b> Red abalone has the double whammy of you need kelp. And you need red abalone\u003ci>.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Dana Cronin: \u003c/b>Without kelp, red abalone don’t have a home to return to. And that makes captive breeding — and reintroduction — a lot harder. That’s part of the reason there is no captive breeding program for red abalone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They are doing some things, though, to try to bring back the kelp and, ultimately, the abalone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, they’ve identified a few areas off the coast where they allow divers to go out and harvest sea urchins to try to get the kelp to grow back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Laura Rogers-Bennett: \u003c/b>So far they haven’t been that successful in terms of bringing back the kelp.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Dana Cronin: \u003c/b>There are also captive breeding programs for sea stars, which aim to reintroduce them back into the ecosystem to keep the urchin at bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s definitely an uphill battle. As someone who has done this work for a long time, Laura says it’s emotionally draining.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Laura Rogers-Bennett: \u003c/b>To go back to a spot and see a particular rock, that I visited, at least once a year for 20 years. And to know that that spot is where there’s tons used to be tons of red abalone and to see it just covered with urchin and no algae at all. It’s heartbreaking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Dana Cronin: \u003c/b>But she’s committed to trying. Trying to get the kelp forest to grow back, trying to recoup the abalone we’ve lost over the last decade. And she hopes the findings from the captive breeding program will help along the way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Laura Rogers-Bennett: \u003c/b>Obviously, in red abalone, we have the passion. I think there’s a chance that we can create some of these pockets of kelp forest. Have them come back in these kelp oases. And, that will be the start of restoration areas for the whole coast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Dana Cronin: \u003c/b>If that happens, we could look forward to a future where Lorraine Page, our question-asker, can beach comb again for abalone pearls. And Doug can revive his long lost hobby; diving down, wrestling octopi along the way, in search of his favorite sea snail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>[Music fades out along with the sound of crashing waves]\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/b> That story was reported by KQED’s Dana Cronin. Big thanks to Lorraine Page for asking the question.\u003cb>\u003ci>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/i>\u003c/b>\u003cb>\u003ci>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/i>\u003c/b>The North Coast Journal provided the sound of abalone clacking during ceremonial dances for our use in this episode.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’ve ever wondered what all goes into making a Bay Curious story sound the way it does … join producer Katrina Schwartz and I on April 11 for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/podcasts/1000/apr-11-600pm-elevating-audio-stories-with-sound-ft-bay-curious\">our talk at the PRX Podcast Garage\u003c/a>. We’re calling it \u003cb>Elevating Audio Stories with Sound\u003c/b> and it’s all about how we make this show with a small but mighty team. We’ll be talking through how we use music, sound effects, archival material, narration and more to bring the Bay Curious podcast to life. Join us in person at KQED’s Headquarters or on the livestream. Tickets are free if you use the code “baycurious” that’s all one word. Grab yours at \u003ca href=\"http://kqed.org/podcastgarage\">kqed.org/podcastgarage\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bay Curious is made in San Francisco at member-supported KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bay Curious is made by Katrina Schwartz, Christopher Beale and me, Olivia Allen-Price. Additional support from Jen Chien, Katie Sprenger, Cesar Saldana, Maha Sanad, Holly Kernan and the whole KQED Family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m Olivia Allen-Price. Have a great week!\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Northern California beachcombers in places like Pescadero and Mendocino find abalone shells much less often than they used to. Climate change is threatening the red abalone population.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1712184048,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":true,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":167,"wordCount":5012},"headData":{"title":"California's Beloved Abalone Sea Snails Are Struggling. Here's Why | KQED","description":"Northern California beachcombers in places like Pescadero and Mendocino find abalone shells much less often than they used to. 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Surrounded by grass-covered cliffs and dramatic rocky outcrops, walkers can often find seashells, driftwood and other riches on the cool, wet sand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Bay Curious listener Lorraine Page moved to Pescadero about 30 years ago, she spent a lot of time hunting for such treasures at the beach. A family doctor by day, beachcombing was her way to unwind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003caside class=\"alignleft utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__bayCuriousPodcastShortcode__bayCurious\">\u003cimg src=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/bayCuriousLogo.png alt=\"Bay Curious Podcast\" />\n \u003ca href=\"/news/series/baycurious\">Bay Curious\u003c/a> is a podcast that answers your questions about the Bay Area.\n Subscribe on \u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/bay-curious/id1172473406\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Apple Podcasts\u003c/a>,\n \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/podcasts/500557090/bay-curious\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NPR One\u003c/a> or your favorite podcast platform.\u003c/aside>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While she came across all sorts of treasures, she was looking for one thing in particular: abalone shells. For her, finding one of those beautiful, iridescent mollusks signified a day well spent on a Northern California beach. \u003ca href=\"https://www.montereybayaquarium.org/animals/animals-a-to-z/abalone\">Abalone are mollusks, essentially sea snails\u003c/a> that can grow up to 10 inches in diameter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If she was especially lucky, Page might even find what are called \u003ci>pearls\u003c/i> attached to the outside of an abalone shell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The abalone makes this pearl to try to protect the shell,” she said. “And it’s beautiful.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the abalone perceives a threat, like a parasite, it surrounds it with nacre, also known as mother-of-pearl, to wall off the intruder. Over eight to 10 years, a beautiful iridescent pearl forms on the abalone shell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Page found \u003ca href=\"https://www.purepearls.com/pages/pearl-types-abalone-pearls\">one of these rare wild beauties\u003c/a>, she brought it to a jeweler in Pescadero, who turned it into one-of-a-kind necklaces or earrings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But over time, Page stopped finding them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It used to be consistent. At certain beaches in Pescadero, you’d find abalone shells,” she said. “And now I just can’t. They’re not around anymore.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She hasn’t found a whole abalone shell in over 10 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>Abalone’s long history\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11976838\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11976838\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240220-ABALONE-64-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240220-ABALONE-64-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240220-ABALONE-64-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240220-ABALONE-64-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240220-ABALONE-64-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240220-ABALONE-64-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240220-ABALONE-64-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Doug Jung holds a red abalone shell, or a trophy as they are called, at his home in Santa Rosa on Feb. 20, 2024. A friend gave the shell to him after his house burned down and he lost all of his belongings in the Tubbs Fire. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Abalone has lived off of California’s coastline for \u003ca href=\"https://caseagrant.ucsd.edu/news/abalone-the-story-of-a-treasured-mollusk-on-the-california-coast\">at least 70 million years\u003c/a>. The ancient mollusk has always held deep meaning for Northern Californians, going back to the very first humans who lived here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When humans came to California, they started using abalone right away — initially for food, but soon thereafter also for tools,” said Ann Vileisis, an environmental historian and author of the book \u003ca href=\"https://osupress.oregonstate.edu/index.php/book/abalone\">\u003ci>Abalone: The Remarkable History and Uncertain Future of California’s Iconic Shellfish\u003c/i>.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Indigenous people also used abalone shells for decoration and ceremonial purposes. During ceremonial dances, people wore beautifully elaborate regalia with abalone shells prominently displayed. They not only looked beautiful, Vileisis said, but they also added an incredible clacking sound, which helped to bring the dance to life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when European settlers arrived on the West Coast, they started treating abalone like a commodity to be traded and sold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the late 18th century, Spanish settlers traded abalone shells for sea otter fur as part of the Pacific fur trade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, in the mid-to-late-19th century, Chinese and Japanese immigrants — who were familiar with abalone, being from the other side of the Pacific Ocean — began shipping dried abalone and shells back to China and Japan, where they were used in soups and congees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That was actually probably among the first California global trades,” Vileisis said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This was also a time of extreme racism and xenophobia in the U.S. In 1882, Congress passed the \u003ca href=\"https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/chinese-exclusion-act#:~:text=The%20Chinese%20Exclusion%20Act%20was,Arthur.\">Chinese Exclusion Act\u003c/a>, which barred Chinese immigrants from entering the U.S. And in1913, the California legislature passed a ban on exporting abalone, allegedly due to concerns over overfishing, though today it is largely seen as a racist law meant to target the growing prosperity of Chinese and Japanese fishermen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But abalone fishing didn’t stop. And in fact, over time, more and more Americans developed a culinary appreciation for California’s iconic sea snail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is absolutely the best thing you can ever eat,” said Doug Jung, a Santa Rosa resident and former abalone diver. “There was nothing I’d rather eat than abalone. I mean, it was just so good.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11976836\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11976836\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240220-ABALONE-61-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Man in checked shirt and sun hat stands in front of a truck with a boat loaded in the back.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240220-ABALONE-61-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240220-ABALONE-61-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240220-ABALONE-61-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240220-ABALONE-61-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240220-ABALONE-61-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240220-ABALONE-61-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Doug Jung stands next to his boat in front of his home in Santa Rosa on Feb. 20, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Jung’s favorite way to cook abalone is to tenderize it with a wooden mallet, cover it with flour, then throw it in a wok and deep fry it for about six minutes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s crunchy on the outside, and you can cut it with a fork easily,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beyond feasting on abalone, diving for it became a way of life for Jung. He learned when he was in high school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s the adventure,” he said. “Every time you go out, when you come back, you say, ‘Cheated death one more time.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Abalone diving is one of the most dangerous kinds of sport fishing. It’s illegal to use scuba gear to dive for abalone due to concerns of overfishing. So, while holding their breath, divers have to dive down to the ocean floor or navigate rocky outcrops, scrape off the abalone without harming them, and then swim back up to the surface. And if that weren’t enough, they also must avoid getting tangled in kelp and encounters with other sea creatures. An octopus almost drowned Jung one time, he said. But despite the risks, for Jung, diving for abalone was totally worth it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This was my passion,” he said. “More than anything else, abalone diving was my absolute passion.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11976837\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11976837\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240220-ABALONE-63-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240220-ABALONE-63-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240220-ABALONE-63-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240220-ABALONE-63-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240220-ABALONE-63-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240220-ABALONE-63-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240220-ABALONE-63-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photos of Doug Jung with friends and family during and after abalone dives hang on the wall of his home in Santa Rosa on Feb. 20, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>Where are all the abalone?\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Just like Lorraine Page, our question-asker, Jung has also noticed the decline in abalone. In fact, he’s not even allowed to dive for them anymore because they are now considered critically endangered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around 2014, a big climate change-driven marine heatwave hit the coast of Northern California. The increased water temperature impacted sea life in all kinds of ways, most notably killing much of the local kelp forest. And since kelp is a staple food source for many sea animals, other oceanic species, like abalone, also died off in large numbers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, the Northern California sea star population was hit hard by a disease called \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/im/swan/ssws.htm\">wasting syndrome\u003c/a>. The warmer marine temperatures made the sea stars more susceptible to the disease and also allowed the disease to proliferate more quickly. Sea stars are predators of sea urchins, so when the sea stars started to decline, purple urchins thrived. And purple urchins devour kelp. The booming urchin population ultimately ate through more than 95% of Northern California’s coastal kelp, causing a near-total kelp forest collapse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without the kelp, millions of red abalone — Northern California’s native species — died of starvation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I go out there and dive, it makes me cry because the only thing I see is urchin barrens,” Jung said. “This is a horror for us who understood the beauty of what we lost.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>Hope for another abalone species\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Red abalone isn’t the only type of abalone facing potential extinction in California. In fact, all west coast abalone species are \u003ca href=\"https://www.ucdavis.edu/climate/news/all-west-coast-abalone-added-endangered-iucns-red-list\">listed\u003c/a> as critically endangered or endangered \u003ca href=\"https://www.iucnredlist.org/\">on the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s Red List of Threatened Species\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Enter the UC Davis Bodega Marine Lab white abalone captive breeding program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11976835\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11976835\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240220-ABALONE-47-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240220-ABALONE-47-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240220-ABALONE-47-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240220-ABALONE-47-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240220-ABALONE-47-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240220-ABALONE-47-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240220-ABALONE-47-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alyssa Frederick, director of the White Abalone Captive Breeding Program, poses for a portrait at the UC Davis-Bodega Marine Laboratory in Bodega Bay on Feb. 20, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The program started over a decade ago when scientists realized that white abalone populations had gotten so low they couldn’t reproduce in the wild anymore. Native to Southern California, the white abalone lives in deep water, but in the 1960s–1970s, as soon as diving technology allowed for deeper water fishing, humans overfished them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scientists have been working to breed white abalone in captivity under controlled conditions in order to release them into the wild and hopefully jump-start reproduction in the wild again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The spawns — where they induce breeding between male and female abalone — are exciting events that only happen once a year. I visited the lab just days after the most recent one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11976831\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11976831\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240220-ABALONE-10-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240220-ABALONE-10-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240220-ABALONE-10-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240220-ABALONE-10-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240220-ABALONE-10-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240220-ABALONE-10-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240220-ABALONE-10-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alyssa Frederick, director of the White Abalone Captive Breeding Program, points to a group of white abalone in a lab at the UC Davis-Bodega Marine Laboratory in Bodega Bay on Feb. 20, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We had 6.7 million eggs last week,” said Alyssa Frederick, director of the lab’s white abalone captive breeding program. “It was the largest spawn we’ve had in the program since 2019. I was really excited.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A ton of planning and coordination goes into a spawn, Frederick said. The abalone basically sits in buckets of chemicals, mostly hydrogen peroxide, which causes a cascade of hormones in their bodies that tell them it’s time to spawn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Abalone are broadcast spawners, meaning they release their eggs and sperm into the water column and form larvae from there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was literally pacing my living room like someone waiting in a maternity ward for someone to give birth,” Frederick said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, the program releases about 5,000 abalone into the wild per year. In order to save the species, models show they need to be releasing twice that amount.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We still are an order of magnitude below what’s required to save the species,” Frederick said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11976832\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11976832\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240220-ABALONE-25-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240220-ABALONE-25-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240220-ABALONE-25-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240220-ABALONE-25-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240220-ABALONE-25-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240220-ABALONE-25-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240220-ABALONE-25-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alyssa Frederick, director of the White Abalone Captive Breeding Program, holds a white abalone at the UC Davis-Bodega Marine Laboratory in Bodega Bay on Feb. 20, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>‘Double whammy’ for red abalone\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The white abalone captive breeding program holds promise for the future of that species. As for red abalone, the situation is more complicated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In white abalone, you have lots of nice habitat,” said Laura Rogers-Bennett, a senior environmental scientist with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife. “You have kelp, you just don’t have white abalone. But red abalone has the double whammy of [needing] kelp \u003ci>and\u003c/i> red abalone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s part of the reason there is no captive breeding program for red abalone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11981674\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11981674\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/red-abalone.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/red-abalone.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/red-abalone-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/red-abalone-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/red-abalone-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/red-abalone-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Abalone in a kelp forest near Mendocino, California, surrounded by dark red algae. \u003ccite>(Lt. John Crofts, NOAA Corps., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But there are some programs in place to try to save the kelp and, ultimately, the abalone. For example, since sea urchins are such a scourge on the kelp, state Fish and Wildlife officials have allowed commercial and recreational divers to harvest them in select areas. With fewer sea urchins, Rogers-Bennett said, the kelp might recover.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the program is still too small to have much impact, Rogers-Bennett said. There are just too many sea urchins. As a lifelong diver and ocean creature enthusiast, she said the work can be discouraging.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To go back to a spot and see a particular rock that I visited at least once a year for 20 years, and to know that that spot is where there used to be tons of red abalone and to see it just covered with urchin and no algae at all, it’s heartbreaking,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While there’s certainly no lack of enthusiasm, she said her program needs more financial support if it has a chance of saving the abalone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Obviously, in red abalone, we have the passion,” she said. “I think there’s a chance that we can create some of these pockets of kelp forest and have them come back in these kelp oases. And that will be the start of restoration areas for the whole coast.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as human-caused climate change continues to change ecosystems, there’s no telling when the next marine heatwave might hit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"baycuriousquestion","attributes":{"named":{"label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"episode-transcript\">Episode Transcript\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>[Sounds of ocean waves and seagulls]\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/b> When Lorraine Page moved to Pescadero in the ’90s, she spent a lot of time at the beach. It was her way to unwind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Lorraine Page: \u003c/b>I’m a family doctor on the coast. So I’m busy. But on, on weekends and such, that would be an outlet for me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>She would comb the beach and explore the tide pools for hours, looking for one thing in particular: abalone shells.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>[Magical beach music begins]\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Abalone are mollusks… basically big sea snails, up to 10 inches wide, that live off our northern California coastline. You might recognize their shells, which are iridescent… somehow every color of the rainbow all at once.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lorraine sought them out because sometimes, if she was lucky, on those abalone shells she would find an abalone \u003ci>pearl.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Lorraine Page: \u003c/b>They’re these beautiful little pearls that show up in the shell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>When Lorraine found one, she’d bring it to a jeweler in Pescadero who would polish it up and turn it into a one-of-a-kind necklace or earrings. But over time, Lorraine has stopped finding them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Lorraine Page: \u003c/b>It used to be consistent that certain beaches in Pescadero, you’d find abalone shells, and I just can’t. They’re not around anymore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>She says she hasn’t found a whole abalone shell in more than 10 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Lorraine Page: \u003c/b>That’s just my simple question is, do we know why there’s not as many abalone?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>[Bay Curious theme music starts] \u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/b>I’m Olivia Allen Price and you’re listening to Bay Curious. On today’s episode: what happened to all the abalone? And can we bring them back?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>[Theme\u003c/i> \u003ci>music ends]\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/b> Where did all the abalone go? We sent reporter Dana Cronin to find out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Dana Cronin:\u003c/b> Before I get to answering Lorraine’s question, I think we could all use a little history lesson. Because, oh man, do abalone have a long history here in Northern California?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ann Vileisis: \u003c/b>Abalone have lived on the California coast for actually 70 million years, at the very least.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Dana Cronin: \u003c/b>Ann Vileisis is an environmental historian who’s authored a whole book on abalone. She says the ancient mollusk has always held deep meaning for us Northern Californians… going back to the \u003ci>very first \u003c/i>humans who lived here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ann Vileisis: \u003c/b>When humans came to California, they started using abalone right away, initially for food, but soon thereafter also for tools\u003ci>.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Dana Cronin: \u003c/b>Indigenous people also used abalone shells for decoration and ceremonial purposes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>[Sounds of a Pomo Indian dance performance featuring clacking abalone shells]\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Dana Cronin: \u003c/b>During ceremonial dances, for example… abalone shells were a part of the regalia. They not only looked beautiful — they also added this incredible clacking sound… bringing the dance to life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when European settlers arrived on the West Coast, they started treating abalone like a commodity… to be traded and sold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>[Music starts]\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the late 18th century, Spanish settlers traded abalone shells for sea otter fur as part of the Pacific fur trade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, in the mid-to-late-1800s, Chinese and Japanese immigrants — who were very familiar with abalone being from the other side of the Pacific Ocean — began shipping dried abalone and shells back to China and Japan, where they were used in soups and congees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ann Vileisis: \u003c/b>That was actually probably one of the, you know, among the first California global trades was in abalone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Dana Cronin: \u003c/b>This was also a time of extreme racism and xenophobia in the U.S., around when Congress passed the Chinese Exclusion Act, which barred Chinese immigrants from entering the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1913, the California legislature passed a ban on exporting abalone, which they \u003ci>said\u003c/i> was due to concerns of overfishing. In reality, the ban was part of the larger anti-immigrant sentiment of the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>[Music fades out]\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But abalone fishing didn’t stop. And in fact, over time, more and more Americans realized how delicious these sea snails are.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Doug Jung: \u003c/b>It is absolutely the best thing you can ever eat. There was nothing I’d rather eat than abalone. I mean, it was just so good.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Dana Cronin: \u003c/b>This is Doug Jung. He lives in Santa Rosa and has been abalone diving up and down the Northern California coast since he was in high school — over 50 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says abalone is naturally buttery and salty… and there’s something about its texture that is totally unique and delicious.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Doug Jung: \u003c/b>We just pound it with a wooden mallet until it’s soft. And then we throw it in a wok for six minutes and deep fry it and it comes out. It doesn’t suck up all the oil. You have it covered with flour and things. So it’s crunchy on the outside. You can cut it with a fork easily.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Dana Cronin: \u003c/b>Like, imagine the most tender, melt-in-your-mouth scallop you’ve ever had.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But beyond just eating it… over the years, abalone diving became a way of life for Doug. It was addicting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Doug Jung: \u003c/b>It’s the adventure. Every time you go out, you know when you come back, you say ‘Cheated death one more time.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>[Music starts]\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Dana Cronin: \u003c/b>Cheated death one more time because abalone diving is one of the more dangerous sport fishing activities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s because it was illegal to use scuba gear to dive for abalone due to concerns of overfishing. So divers have to dive down to the ocean floor or navigate rocky outcrops — where abalone suction themselves — scrape them off without harming them… and then swim to the surface \u003ci>all in one breath\u003c/i>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>[Music fades out]\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not to mention avoiding getting tangled in kelp… or encountering other sea critters. Doug tells me about a time he had a run-in with an octopus:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Doug Jung: \u003c/b>He only had two tentacles on me … but with those two tentacles — and I was in my prime in my 30s — I barely got off those two tentacles before coming up. And, I’m thinking if you had three on, I’d be dead\u003ci>.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Dana Cronin: \u003c/b>Doug says, despite the risks, diving for abalone was totally worth it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Doug Jung: \u003c/b>I feel very, very fortunate to be able to experience this because this was my passion. More than anything else, more than inventing new technology, more than going fishing, more than hiking. Going up from the into the Sierras. Abalone diving was my absolute passion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Dana Cronin: \u003c/b>But just like Lorraine, Doug has also noticed the decline in abalone. In fact, he’s not even allowed to dive for abalone anymore, because abalone are now considered critically endangered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To understand how we got here, we need to rewind the clock about 10 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>[Music starts]\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Dana Cronin: \u003c/b>Around 2014, there was a big marine heatwave, driven no doubt by climate change. That heat wave impacted Northern California’s coastline in all kinds of ways. Most notably, killing much of the kelp forest off our coast here. Kelp is the main food source for many ocean species — including, you guessed it, abalone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The marine heat wave also introduced a disease called wasting syndrome… which wiped out much of the sea star population. Like in any ecosystem, when one species is impacted, other species along the food chain are impacted, too. Sea stars prey on sea urchins. So when the sea stars started to decline, purple urchins were without a predator… and they \u003ci>thrived. \u003c/i>So much so that they ate through more than 95 percent of our coastal kelp… causing a near-total kelp forest collapse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>[Music out]\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that’s the root issue here. Because without the kelp, millions of red abalone — the kind that’s native to Northern California — have died due to starvation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Doug Jung: \u003c/b>It’s dead. When I go out there and dive up. It makes me cry because the only thing I see is urchin barrens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Dana Cronin: \u003c/b>While Doug used to dive down and see this lush kelp forest, teeming with fish and snails and sea stars… now, with the kelp mostly gone, it’s almost like a desert landscape, with urchins covering the ocean floor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Doug Jung: \u003c/b>This is a horror for us. For us who understood the beauty of what we lost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Dana Cronin: \u003c/b>So that’s the sad answer to Lorraine’s question.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But now, you might be wondering: is there hope for the future of abalone?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>[Rushing mechanical background sound fade in]\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Dana Cronin: \u003c/b>To answer that question, we’re going to take a tour of the UC Davis Bodega Marine Lab, a facility in Bodega Bay that \u003ci>breeds \u003c/i>abalone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Alyssa Frederick: \u003c/b>When we’re doing spawning, what we do is we’ll take an animal out and we’ll check its gonads.\u003ci> \u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Dana Cronin: \u003c/b>This is Alyssa Frederick. She directs the white abalone \u003ci>captive breeding program\u003c/i> here at the lab.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She holds up a five-year-old female abalone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Alyssa Frederick: \u003c/b>So they have two eyes on stocks and then they also have their like antenna. That’s curled up underneath. One’s curled up underneath, and one’s right here. Yeah. Pretty cute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Dana Cronin: \u003c/b>We’re in a lab holding room full of tanks housing abalone of all ages and sizes. This little lady, in particular, looks like a giant, oval-shaped snail with a big shell that sits flat across her back. Her two eyes are like tentacles, feeling their way around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The spawns — where they induce breeding between the male and female abalone — are a really big deal. They only happen once a year, and I’m visiting just days after the most recent one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Alyssa Frederick: \u003c/b>We had 6.7 million eggs last week. It was the largest spawn we’ve had in the program since 2019. I was really excited.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>[Music starts]\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Dana Cronin: \u003c/b>A lot of planning and coordination goes into a spawn. The abalone basically sit in buckets of chemicals, namely hydrogen peroxide, which causes a cascade of hormones in their bodies that tell them it’s time to spawn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alyssa says they set the mood — so to speak — in other ways too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Alyssa Frederick: \u003c/b>We had the lights off for most of it. We did it in the evening, which, like abalone, are more active in the evening. So my line of thinking is that why not stack the odds in our favor and do it then?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Dana Cronin: \u003c/b>Abalone are broadcast spawners, meaning they release their eggs and sperm into the water column and form larvae from there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alyssa says it’s an intense process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Alyssa Frederick:\u003c/b> I mean, the joke, like, I was literally pacing my living room like someone waiting in a maternity ward for someone to give birth\u003ci>.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>[Music fade out]\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Dana Cronin: \u003c/b>On the day I’m visiting, the little baby abalone are starting to settle, which means they have to flip themselves over and find a place to settle on the bottom of the tank.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We watch them through a microscope:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Alyssa Frederick: \u003c/b>Wee! Aww. So cute. Dancing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Dana Cronin: \u003c/b>Now it’s important to note that these are \u003ci>white \u003c/i>abalone. Remember the ones we’ve mostly been talking about so far are red abalone… which are native to \u003ci>Northern\u003c/i> California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>White abalone were more common down in southern California. However, in the ‘60s and ‘70s, as soon as diving technology allowed us to fish deeper water species, we overfished them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Alyssa Frederick: \u003c/b>So we overfished, over 99% of what was out in the wild. It was pretty significant. Like, pretty much all of them.\u003ci> \u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Dana Cronin: \u003c/b>White abalone was the first marine invertebrate species to be listed on the Endangered Species Act. There were so few left they weren’t able to reproduce in the wild anymore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So scientists decided to bring some into captivity, have them reproduce in safe, controlled conditions, and then release them into the wild. They release them when they’re about a year old by placing them in these small cages on the ocean floor and opening up the door.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The goal is to create enough of them out in the wild that they start reproducing on their own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Right now, they’re releasing about five thousand abalone into the wild per year. In order to save the species, models show they need to be releasing twice that amount.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Alyssa Frederick: \u003c/b>Right now we still are an order of magnitude below what’s required to save the species.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Dana Cronin: \u003c/b>But, she says, they’re also an order of magnitude \u003ci>above\u003c/i> where they started.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>[Music starts]\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So there’s some hope for white abalone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for our red abalone here in Northern California… the situation is more complicated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Laura Rogers-Bennett: \u003c/b>I think the red abalone problem is more difficult.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Dana Cronin: \u003c/b>This is Laura Rogers-Bennett, a senior environmental scientist with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife. She also works at the Bodega Marine Lab and specializes in \u003ci>red\u003c/i> abalone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says while white abalone struggle in numbers, they at least have a healthy kelp forest to return to down south.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Laura Rogers-Bennett:\u003c/b> Red abalone has the double whammy of you need kelp. And you need red abalone\u003ci>.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Dana Cronin: \u003c/b>Without kelp, red abalone don’t have a home to return to. And that makes captive breeding — and reintroduction — a lot harder. That’s part of the reason there is no captive breeding program for red abalone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They are doing some things, though, to try to bring back the kelp and, ultimately, the abalone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, they’ve identified a few areas off the coast where they allow divers to go out and harvest sea urchins to try to get the kelp to grow back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Laura Rogers-Bennett: \u003c/b>So far they haven’t been that successful in terms of bringing back the kelp.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Dana Cronin: \u003c/b>There are also captive breeding programs for sea stars, which aim to reintroduce them back into the ecosystem to keep the urchin at bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s definitely an uphill battle. As someone who has done this work for a long time, Laura says it’s emotionally draining.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Laura Rogers-Bennett: \u003c/b>To go back to a spot and see a particular rock, that I visited, at least once a year for 20 years. And to know that that spot is where there’s tons used to be tons of red abalone and to see it just covered with urchin and no algae at all. It’s heartbreaking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Dana Cronin: \u003c/b>But she’s committed to trying. Trying to get the kelp forest to grow back, trying to recoup the abalone we’ve lost over the last decade. And she hopes the findings from the captive breeding program will help along the way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Laura Rogers-Bennett: \u003c/b>Obviously, in red abalone, we have the passion. I think there’s a chance that we can create some of these pockets of kelp forest. Have them come back in these kelp oases. And, that will be the start of restoration areas for the whole coast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Dana Cronin: \u003c/b>If that happens, we could look forward to a future where Lorraine Page, our question-asker, can beach comb again for abalone pearls. And Doug can revive his long lost hobby; diving down, wrestling octopi along the way, in search of his favorite sea snail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>[Music fades out along with the sound of crashing waves]\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/b> That story was reported by KQED’s Dana Cronin. Big thanks to Lorraine Page for asking the question.\u003cb>\u003ci>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/i>\u003c/b>\u003cb>\u003ci>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/i>\u003c/b>The North Coast Journal provided the sound of abalone clacking during ceremonial dances for our use in this episode.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’ve ever wondered what all goes into making a Bay Curious story sound the way it does … join producer Katrina Schwartz and I on April 11 for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/podcasts/1000/apr-11-600pm-elevating-audio-stories-with-sound-ft-bay-curious\">our talk at the PRX Podcast Garage\u003c/a>. We’re calling it \u003cb>Elevating Audio Stories with Sound\u003c/b> and it’s all about how we make this show with a small but mighty team. We’ll be talking through how we use music, sound effects, archival material, narration and more to bring the Bay Curious podcast to life. Join us in person at KQED’s Headquarters or on the livestream. Tickets are free if you use the code “baycurious” that’s all one word. Grab yours at \u003ca href=\"http://kqed.org/podcastgarage\">kqed.org/podcastgarage\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bay Curious is made in San Francisco at member-supported KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bay Curious is made by Katrina Schwartz, Christopher Beale and me, Olivia Allen-Price. Additional support from Jen Chien, Katie Sprenger, Cesar Saldana, Maha Sanad, Holly Kernan and the whole KQED Family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m Olivia Allen-Price. Have a great week!\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11981665/climate-change-induced-heatwaves-are-devastating-californias-kelp-and-abalone","authors":["11362"],"programs":["news_33523"],"series":["news_17986"],"categories":["news_31795","news_19906","news_8","news_356"],"tags":["news_33947","news_18008","news_33948"],"featImg":"news_11980414","label":"source_news_11981665"},"news_11944369":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11944369","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11944369","score":null,"sort":[1679565659000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"why-do-people-fish-off-highway-101-near-brisbane","title":"Why Do People Fish off Highway 101 Near Brisbane?","publishDate":1679565659,"format":"audio","headTitle":"Why Do People Fish off Highway 101 Near Brisbane? | KQED","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://bit.ly/3TDw90P\">\u003cem>Read the transcript of this episode here.\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As you drive on Highway 101 between South San Francisco and Candlestick Park, there’s a stretch of road that gets very straight and runs right next to the bay. The road has a big shoulder in this section, including a wide section of dirt with “No Parking” signs placed every 50 feet or so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bay Curious listener Eyra Dordi drives this stretch of highway almost every day on her commute to work. She often sees cars parked along the side of the road, despite the signs and the hazardous conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriousbug]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I realized there are people out there fishing really frequently,” Dordi said. “And I was really curious as to why anyone would decide that was the spot in the bay that they wanted to have a nice, relaxing fish.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dordi also wondered why fishermen and women would risk getting a parking ticket to fish here. It’s illegal to park on the side of any freeway due to safety concerns. The fine starts at $238, but could be more for repeat offenses, according to the California Highway Patrol.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Fishing ‘the tubes’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>It turns out there’s a very good reason fisherfolk are willing to risk the hazards of traffic and CHP officers at this spot along 101 — the fishing can be \u003cem>great.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We call it \u003ca href=\"https://goo.gl/maps/aZUWvFzT5ct2jbC38\">the tubes\u003c/a>,” said Anthony Spears Sr., an avid fisherman who happens to also be the facility services supervisor at KQED. “For years we’ve fished there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s the deal: There are two concrete viaducts — “the tubes” — that connect the bay to \u003ca href=\"https://goo.gl/maps/MuTVTBfL33vHQjbW8\">Brisbane Lagoon\u003c/a>, located on the inland side of the freeway. The tubes run under the freeway, allowing water to flow back and forth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As the tide’s coming up, the water is flowing into the small pond on the other side. And then as the tide is going out, that same flow is going out into the bay,” Spears said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11944378\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11944378 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/IMG_1698.jpeg\" alt=\"Two square tubes coming horizontally out of an embankment open up to the Brisbane Lagoon.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/IMG_1698.jpeg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/IMG_1698-800x450.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/IMG_1698-1020x574.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/IMG_1698-160x90.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/IMG_1698-1536x864.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Water in ‘the tubes’ flows from Brisbane Lagoon, under an access road and Highway 101, before reaching the San Francisco Bay. \u003ccite>(Olivia Allen-Price/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Smaller fish, like herring, swim into the lagoon to spawn in quieter waters that are more protected. But when the tide flows out, they are washed back out into the bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Larger fish like halibut and striped bass, as well as stingrays, wait near the bayside opening of the tubes for an easy meal. And human fisherfolk wait there, too, eager to snag some delicious halibut or striped bass. It’s the whole food chain, concentrated in one spot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the parking is illegal, people can still fish from boats, or walk to accessible points nearby legally. Or they can fish on the lagoon side of the tubes, where there’s a small park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Spears remembers fishing the tubes as a kid with his dad, and then later with his best friend, Tony. They’re both still avid fishermen, although Spears lives further from the tubes now and so doesn’t stop to fish there as often.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I only fish there once a year,” said Albert Chu, a fisherman I met along Ocean Beach. “That is when the herring are there. Usually around January or February. It’s a good eating fish. Very healthy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Fishing around the Bay\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>While some Bay Area residents, like Spears and Chu, have been fishing for a long time, others are just getting into it. Popular fishing YouTube channels like \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCC7WFw42VnywQRvewSq29eg\">Fisherman’s Life\u003c/a>, as well as Facebook groups dedicated to crabbing or fishing off the Pacifica pier, have made fishing feel more accessible. During the coronavirus pandemic when people were looking for socially distant activities, fishing suddenly became appealing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98y8FV7Pe20\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s water everywhere and it’s all different,” Spears said. “There’s freshwater, there’s brackish water, there’s saltwater, there’s the bay, there’s the ocean. There’s a great variety of fish and a great variety of styles of fishing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That may be why it’s easy to spot fisherfolk spaced out every 20 feet all along San Francisco’s Ocean Beach snaring for crabs. Snaring means they use a fishing pole with bait in a little wire box at the end of the line that has wire hooks coming off it. The fisher casts the line into the waves and hopes the bait will attract a crab that will then get caught in the loops. When the fisher sees the line strain, he hauls in the crab, measures it to make sure it’s big enough to keep and then stores it in a cooler with some seawater to keep it alive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11944388\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11944388 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/IMG_2482-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"A man, woman and child smiling for the camera on a beach. They are wearing waders for fishing.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/IMG_2482-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/IMG_2482-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/IMG_2482-1020x765.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/IMG_2482-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/IMG_2482-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/IMG_2482-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/IMG_2482-1920x1440.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">April Kennedy (center) on Ocean Beach with her husband and grandson, who were snaring crabs. Kennedy has been fishing for 30 years. \u003ccite>(Katrina Schwartz/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Other people prefer to take crab pots out on kayaks, stand-up paddle boards or boats to try for a bigger haul. The important thing is to have a fishing license (unless you are fishing from a pier — then you don’t need one) and to be on the ocean side of the Golden Gate Bridge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re interested in trying your hand at fishing, stop and talk to one of the many folks fishing around the Bay on any day. Most of them are very nice and willing to give pointers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriousquestion]\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Why do people love this popular fishing spot, right next to an eight-lane highway?","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1700531638,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":true,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":true,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":23,"wordCount":955},"headData":{"title":"Why Do People Fish off Highway 101 Near Brisbane? | KQED","description":"Why do people love this popular fishing spot, right next to an eight-lane highway?","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Why Do People Fish off Highway 101 Near Brisbane?","datePublished":"2023-03-23T10:00:59.000Z","dateModified":"2023-11-21T01:53:58.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"source":"Bay Curious","sourceUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/podcasts/baycurious/","audioUrl":"https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/chrt.fm/track/EBCBFA/traffic.megaphone.fm/KQINC1709224384.mp3?updated=1679532171","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11944369/why-do-people-fish-off-highway-101-near-brisbane","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://bit.ly/3TDw90P\">\u003cem>Read the transcript of this episode here.\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As you drive on Highway 101 between South San Francisco and Candlestick Park, there’s a stretch of road that gets very straight and runs right next to the bay. The road has a big shoulder in this section, including a wide section of dirt with “No Parking” signs placed every 50 feet or so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bay Curious listener Eyra Dordi drives this stretch of highway almost every day on her commute to work. She often sees cars parked along the side of the road, despite the signs and the hazardous conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003caside class=\"alignleft utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__bayCuriousPodcastShortcode__bayCurious\">\u003cimg src=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/bayCuriousLogo.png alt=\"Bay Curious Podcast\" />\n What do you wonder about the Bay Area, its culture or people that you want KQED to investigate?\n \u003ca href=\"/news/series/baycurious\">Ask Bay Curious.\u003c/a>\u003c/aside>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I realized there are people out there fishing really frequently,” Dordi said. “And I was really curious as to why anyone would decide that was the spot in the bay that they wanted to have a nice, relaxing fish.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dordi also wondered why fishermen and women would risk getting a parking ticket to fish here. It’s illegal to park on the side of any freeway due to safety concerns. The fine starts at $238, but could be more for repeat offenses, according to the California Highway Patrol.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Fishing ‘the tubes’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>It turns out there’s a very good reason fisherfolk are willing to risk the hazards of traffic and CHP officers at this spot along 101 — the fishing can be \u003cem>great.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We call it \u003ca href=\"https://goo.gl/maps/aZUWvFzT5ct2jbC38\">the tubes\u003c/a>,” said Anthony Spears Sr., an avid fisherman who happens to also be the facility services supervisor at KQED. “For years we’ve fished there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s the deal: There are two concrete viaducts — “the tubes” — that connect the bay to \u003ca href=\"https://goo.gl/maps/MuTVTBfL33vHQjbW8\">Brisbane Lagoon\u003c/a>, located on the inland side of the freeway. The tubes run under the freeway, allowing water to flow back and forth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As the tide’s coming up, the water is flowing into the small pond on the other side. And then as the tide is going out, that same flow is going out into the bay,” Spears said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11944378\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11944378 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/IMG_1698.jpeg\" alt=\"Two square tubes coming horizontally out of an embankment open up to the Brisbane Lagoon.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/IMG_1698.jpeg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/IMG_1698-800x450.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/IMG_1698-1020x574.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/IMG_1698-160x90.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/IMG_1698-1536x864.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Water in ‘the tubes’ flows from Brisbane Lagoon, under an access road and Highway 101, before reaching the San Francisco Bay. \u003ccite>(Olivia Allen-Price/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Smaller fish, like herring, swim into the lagoon to spawn in quieter waters that are more protected. But when the tide flows out, they are washed back out into the bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Larger fish like halibut and striped bass, as well as stingrays, wait near the bayside opening of the tubes for an easy meal. And human fisherfolk wait there, too, eager to snag some delicious halibut or striped bass. It’s the whole food chain, concentrated in one spot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the parking is illegal, people can still fish from boats, or walk to accessible points nearby legally. Or they can fish on the lagoon side of the tubes, where there’s a small park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Spears remembers fishing the tubes as a kid with his dad, and then later with his best friend, Tony. They’re both still avid fishermen, although Spears lives further from the tubes now and so doesn’t stop to fish there as often.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I only fish there once a year,” said Albert Chu, a fisherman I met along Ocean Beach. “That is when the herring are there. Usually around January or February. It’s a good eating fish. Very healthy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Fishing around the Bay\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>While some Bay Area residents, like Spears and Chu, have been fishing for a long time, others are just getting into it. Popular fishing YouTube channels like \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCC7WFw42VnywQRvewSq29eg\">Fisherman’s Life\u003c/a>, as well as Facebook groups dedicated to crabbing or fishing off the Pacifica pier, have made fishing feel more accessible. During the coronavirus pandemic when people were looking for socially distant activities, fishing suddenly became appealing.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/98y8FV7Pe20'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/98y8FV7Pe20'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>“There’s water everywhere and it’s all different,” Spears said. “There’s freshwater, there’s brackish water, there’s saltwater, there’s the bay, there’s the ocean. There’s a great variety of fish and a great variety of styles of fishing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That may be why it’s easy to spot fisherfolk spaced out every 20 feet all along San Francisco’s Ocean Beach snaring for crabs. Snaring means they use a fishing pole with bait in a little wire box at the end of the line that has wire hooks coming off it. The fisher casts the line into the waves and hopes the bait will attract a crab that will then get caught in the loops. When the fisher sees the line strain, he hauls in the crab, measures it to make sure it’s big enough to keep and then stores it in a cooler with some seawater to keep it alive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11944388\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11944388 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/IMG_2482-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"A man, woman and child smiling for the camera on a beach. They are wearing waders for fishing.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/IMG_2482-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/IMG_2482-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/IMG_2482-1020x765.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/IMG_2482-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/IMG_2482-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/IMG_2482-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/IMG_2482-1920x1440.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">April Kennedy (center) on Ocean Beach with her husband and grandson, who were snaring crabs. Kennedy has been fishing for 30 years. \u003ccite>(Katrina Schwartz/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Other people prefer to take crab pots out on kayaks, stand-up paddle boards or boats to try for a bigger haul. The important thing is to have a fishing license (unless you are fishing from a pier — then you don’t need one) and to be on the ocean side of the Golden Gate Bridge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re interested in trying your hand at fishing, stop and talk to one of the many folks fishing around the Bay on any day. Most of them are very nice and willing to give pointers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"baycuriousquestion","attributes":{"named":{"label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11944369/why-do-people-fish-off-highway-101-near-brisbane","authors":["234"],"programs":["news_33523"],"series":["news_17986"],"categories":["news_8","news_33520"],"tags":["news_19172","news_32571","news_18008"],"featImg":"news_11944387","label":"source_news_11944369"},"news_11792314":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11792314","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11792314","score":null,"sort":[1576802869000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"happy-dungeness-crab-season","title":"Happy Dungeness Crab Season","publishDate":1576802869,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Mark Fiore: Drawn to the Bay | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":18515,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>After a delay, commercial \u003ca href=\"http://bit.ly/fioredungeness\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dungeness crab season is now open\u003c/a>, so get your pots ready!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State officials delayed the season to minimize the chances migrating whales would get entangled in crabbing gear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now that the whales have largely moved on, crabs are left to fend for themselves and resist the overpowering urge to walk into that scary-looking trap for a free meal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"After a delay, commercial Dungeness crab season is now open, so get your pots 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delayed the season to minimize the chances migrating whales would get entangled in crabbing gear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now that the whales have largely moved on, crabs are left to fend for themselves and resist the overpowering urge to walk into that scary-looking trap for a free meal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv 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href=\"https://www.ggacc.org/spey-o-rama\">Spey-O-Rama\u003c/a>, the world championship of long-distance Spey casting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://streamsideorvis.com/2018/02/spey-casting-basics/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Spey casting\u003c/a> is named for the River Spey in Scotland, where anglers developed techniques nearly two centuries ago to send their lines dozens of feet over the water to hook salmon and sea trout. It’s now become an international sport.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=”right” citation=\"Libby Wolfensperger, tournament chair\"]'When it’s done right, it just becomes a physical extension of the person, and it’s just astounding.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Once every year all the ninja warriors of Spey casting are converging for Spey-O-Rama,” said Xavier Carbonnet with the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ggacc.org/spey-o-rama\">Golden Gate Angling and Casting Club\u003c/a>, which hosts the three-day event at their ponds. “These are some of the longest casts in the world.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, anglers from 14 countries — including the U.K., Russia, Japan, Korea, Argentina, Canada and the U.S. — competed for the title.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the tournament, competitors wade thigh-deep into the water and have six minutes to complete a series of two-handed casts from both their strong and weak sides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The highlight for many spectators is the Snake Roll, in which the caster loops the rod through the air in a circular motion, animating the line above the water, before drawing back and shooting it forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’re making these beautiful sweeping motions that are extended through the rod and the line,” said tournament chair Libby Wolfensperger. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When it’s done right, it just becomes a physical extension of the person, and it’s just astounding.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11744021\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Kara-Knight-Casting-Fly-Fishing-800x509.jpg\" alt=\"Kara Knight casts in the women's final of Spey-O-Rama. Knight had the long cast in the women's field, reaching 136 feet.\" width=\"800\" height=\"509\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11744021\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Kara-Knight-Casting-Fly-Fishing-800x509.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Kara-Knight-Casting-Fly-Fishing-160x102.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Kara-Knight-Casting-Fly-Fishing-1020x650.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Kara-Knight-Casting-Fly-Fishing.jpg 1115w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kara Knight casts in the women's final of Spey-O-Rama. Knight had the long cast in the women's field, reaching 136 feet. \u003ccite>(Peter Arcuni/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When the clock times out, the longest of each of the four types of cast are tallied into a single score. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prizes — which this year included glass trophies, handmade fishing reels and bottles of aged Scotch — are awarded for total score as well as the longest cast in men’s, women’s and senior divisions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11743772\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11743772\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Prizes-800x451.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"451\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Prizes-800x451.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Prizes-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Prizes-1020x575.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Prizes-1200x676.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Prizes-1920x1082.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Prizes.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Champions took home trophies, handmade fishing reels and top-shelf Scotch for their victories on Sunday. \u003ccite>(Peter Arcuni/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This year’s men’s champion Gerard Downey of Ireland picked up his sixth Spey-O-Rama title and made the longest cast of the tournament at 191 feet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Senior division champion Martin Kiely broke the tournament record for ages 55 and up with a cast of 169 feet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11743768\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11743768\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Mens-Champs-e1556653445285-800x647.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"647\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Mens-Champs-e1556653445285-800x647.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Mens-Champs-e1556653445285-160x129.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Mens-Champs-e1556653445285-1020x825.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Mens-Champs-e1556653445285-1200x970.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Mens-Champs-e1556653445285.jpg 1310w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Spey-O-Rama men's champs, (L-R) Tommy Aarkvisla (2nd), Gerard Downey (1st), Zach Zack Williams (3rd). Downey's longest cast hit 191 feet. \u003ccite>(Peter Arcuni/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>It's Not Just Old Guys\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tournament officials say they've seen a growing interest in fly fishing in women and young people in recent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year's event included a record number of female entries with nine, and the ages of competitors ranged from casters in their early 20s to those in their 80s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wolfensperger says the beauty of Spey casting is that with enough practice, anyone can learn how to do it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It takes skill. Does it take a lot of strength? No. So the women are competing and really, really as good as men,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kara Knight, who finished third overall in the women’s field, had the longest individual cast in the division, hitting 136 feet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It’s becoming more accessible to ladies,\" she said of the sport. \"It's great to be out here and show other people they can do it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11743766\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11743766\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Womens-champs-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Womens-champs-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Womens-champs-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Womens-champs-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Womens-champs-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Womens-champs-1920x1080.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Womens-champs.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Spey-O-Rama women's champs (L-R) Whitney Gould (1st), Mia Sheppard (2nd), Kara Knight (3rd). \u003ccite>(Peter Arcuni/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But it's about more than just competition. Knight, who made her sixth trip from British Columbia for Spey-O-Rama, says the camaraderie and sense of community is what draws her back each year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Warming up for the tournament, rivals can been seen giving each other tips and comparing gear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everyone wants the best for each other, even among the competitors in the same field,” Knight said. “It is like a family.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Knight isn’t in the water competing herself, she said she's a fan, like the estimated 200-300 spectators who came to Golden Gate Park to watch the tournament over the course of the weekend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These people are the best in the world at what they’re doing. They set records every year it seems, so it’s pretty neat to watch.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Over the weekend, fly fishermen - and a record number of women - from 14 countries competed for the 16th Annual Spey-O-Rama World Championship in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1556835857,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":27,"wordCount":803},"headData":{"title":"At Fly Fishing World Championships in S.F., International Competitors Angle for Glory | KQED","description":"Over the weekend, fly fishermen - and a record number of women - from 14 countries competed for the 16th Annual Spey-O-Rama World Championship in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"At Fly Fishing World Championships in S.F., International Competitors Angle for Glory","datePublished":"2019-05-01T00:20:53.000Z","dateModified":"2019-05-02T22:24:17.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11743695 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11743695","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2019/04/30/at-fly-fishing-world-championships-in-s-f-international-competitors-angle-for-glory/","disqusTitle":"At Fly Fishing World Championships in S.F., International Competitors Angle for Glory","videoEmbed":"https://youtu.be/NcGcGJ-E4oE","source":"Sports","audioUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/RDnews/2019/05/ArcuniSpeyORama.mp3","audioTrackLength":108,"path":"/news/11743695/at-fly-fishing-world-championships-in-s-f-international-competitors-angle-for-glory","audioDuration":108000,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>This past weekend, the titans of fly fishing flocked to San Francisco's Golden Gate Park with waders and rods to compete in \u003ca href=\"https://www.ggacc.org/spey-o-rama\">Spey-O-Rama\u003c/a>, the world championship of long-distance Spey casting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://streamsideorvis.com/2018/02/spey-casting-basics/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Spey casting\u003c/a> is named for the River Spey in Scotland, where anglers developed techniques nearly two centuries ago to send their lines dozens of feet over the water to hook salmon and sea trout. It’s now become an international sport.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'When it’s done right, it just becomes a physical extension of the person, and it’s just astounding.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"”right”","citation":"Libby Wolfensperger, tournament chair","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Once every year all the ninja warriors of Spey casting are converging for Spey-O-Rama,” said Xavier Carbonnet with the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ggacc.org/spey-o-rama\">Golden Gate Angling and Casting Club\u003c/a>, which hosts the three-day event at their ponds. “These are some of the longest casts in the world.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, anglers from 14 countries — including the U.K., Russia, Japan, Korea, Argentina, Canada and the U.S. — competed for the title.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the tournament, competitors wade thigh-deep into the water and have six minutes to complete a series of two-handed casts from both their strong and weak sides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The highlight for many spectators is the Snake Roll, in which the caster loops the rod through the air in a circular motion, animating the line above the water, before drawing back and shooting it forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’re making these beautiful sweeping motions that are extended through the rod and the line,” said tournament chair Libby Wolfensperger. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When it’s done right, it just becomes a physical extension of the person, and it’s just astounding.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11744021\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Kara-Knight-Casting-Fly-Fishing-800x509.jpg\" alt=\"Kara Knight casts in the women's final of Spey-O-Rama. Knight had the long cast in the women's field, reaching 136 feet.\" width=\"800\" height=\"509\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11744021\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Kara-Knight-Casting-Fly-Fishing-800x509.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Kara-Knight-Casting-Fly-Fishing-160x102.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Kara-Knight-Casting-Fly-Fishing-1020x650.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Kara-Knight-Casting-Fly-Fishing.jpg 1115w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kara Knight casts in the women's final of Spey-O-Rama. Knight had the long cast in the women's field, reaching 136 feet. \u003ccite>(Peter Arcuni/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When the clock times out, the longest of each of the four types of cast are tallied into a single score. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prizes — which this year included glass trophies, handmade fishing reels and bottles of aged Scotch — are awarded for total score as well as the longest cast in men’s, women’s and senior divisions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11743772\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11743772\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Prizes-800x451.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"451\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Prizes-800x451.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Prizes-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Prizes-1020x575.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Prizes-1200x676.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Prizes-1920x1082.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Prizes.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Champions took home trophies, handmade fishing reels and top-shelf Scotch for their victories on Sunday. \u003ccite>(Peter Arcuni/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This year’s men’s champion Gerard Downey of Ireland picked up his sixth Spey-O-Rama title and made the longest cast of the tournament at 191 feet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Senior division champion Martin Kiely broke the tournament record for ages 55 and up with a cast of 169 feet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11743768\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11743768\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Mens-Champs-e1556653445285-800x647.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"647\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Mens-Champs-e1556653445285-800x647.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Mens-Champs-e1556653445285-160x129.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Mens-Champs-e1556653445285-1020x825.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Mens-Champs-e1556653445285-1200x970.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Mens-Champs-e1556653445285.jpg 1310w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Spey-O-Rama men's champs, (L-R) Tommy Aarkvisla (2nd), Gerard Downey (1st), Zach Zack Williams (3rd). Downey's longest cast hit 191 feet. \u003ccite>(Peter Arcuni/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>It's Not Just Old Guys\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tournament officials say they've seen a growing interest in fly fishing in women and young people in recent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year's event included a record number of female entries with nine, and the ages of competitors ranged from casters in their early 20s to those in their 80s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wolfensperger says the beauty of Spey casting is that with enough practice, anyone can learn how to do it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It takes skill. Does it take a lot of strength? No. So the women are competing and really, really as good as men,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kara Knight, who finished third overall in the women’s field, had the longest individual cast in the division, hitting 136 feet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It’s becoming more accessible to ladies,\" she said of the sport. \"It's great to be out here and show other people they can do it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11743766\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11743766\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Womens-champs-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Womens-champs-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Womens-champs-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Womens-champs-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Womens-champs-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Womens-champs-1920x1080.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Womens-champs.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Spey-O-Rama women's champs (L-R) Whitney Gould (1st), Mia Sheppard (2nd), Kara Knight (3rd). \u003ccite>(Peter Arcuni/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But it's about more than just competition. Knight, who made her sixth trip from British Columbia for Spey-O-Rama, says the camaraderie and sense of community is what draws her back each year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Warming up for the tournament, rivals can been seen giving each other tips and comparing gear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everyone wants the best for each other, even among the competitors in the same field,” Knight said. “It is like a family.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Knight isn’t in the water competing herself, she said she's a fan, like the estimated 200-300 spectators who came to Golden Gate Park to watch the tournament over the course of the weekend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These people are the best in the world at what they’re doing. They set records every year it seems, so it’s pretty neat to watch.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11743695/at-fly-fishing-world-championships-in-s-f-international-competitors-angle-for-glory","authors":["11368"],"categories":["news_8","news_10"],"tags":["news_18008","news_823","news_38","news_111","news_150"],"featImg":"news_11744046","label":"source_news_11743695"},"news_11735659":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11735659","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11735659","score":null,"sort":[1553725849000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"california-dungeness-crab-fishery-to-close-three-months-early-to-protect-whales","title":"California Dungeness Crab Fishery to Close 3 Months Early to Protect Whales","publishDate":1553725849,"format":"audio","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>A settlement announced Tuesday between fishers, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife and the Center for Biological Diversity will bring an April 15 close to the Dungeness crab season statewide, three months earlier than it usually ends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit centered around the entanglement of whales and leatherback sea turtles in crab-fishing gear, which spiked in 2015 and 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While fishers and the CDFW pointed to the 2015-2016 crab season as an anomaly triggered by an unusually warm blob of water off the California coast, CBD attorney Kristen Monsell said the group wasn't seeing enough action from the California Dungeness Crab Fishing Gear Working Group, which formed to tackle whale entanglements following that season. She said many of the conditions present that year have persisted: The crab fishery has had a delayed start three out of the last four years due to high domoic acid levels driven by warming waters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A preliminary count for 2018 showed 45 whale entanglements on the West Coast, compared with 31 confirmed entanglements in 2017. Between 2000 and 2014, the West Coast saw an average of 10 entanglements per year, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=”right” citation=\"Dick Ogg, crab boat captain\"]'With warm water, no krill, high concentrations of crab gear, it was the perfect storm.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What no one disagrees on is that climate change has altered ocean conditions in ways that are harmful to both whales and the livelihoods of fishers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There are several reasons why people think we're seeing a big spike in entanglements. One is climate change,\" Monsell said. \"The whales are going into and staying in different waters at different times of the year than they have in the past.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That shift began in 2015, when a large warm-water blob appeared off the coast of California. Warm-water currents are normal, but this was a large blob of water that was approximately 7 degrees higher than normal warm currents. That caused a spike in large algae blooms and shifted the marine food web. The algae contributed to a buildup in crab of domoic acid, a harmful neurotoxin, delaying the opening of the Dungeness crab fishing season from November 2015 to late March 2016. The warm water caused krill, the whales' preferred food, to move closer to shore, while also driving a concentration of crab in Morro and Monterey bays, spots that tend to be less popular for crabbers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"With warm water, no krill, high concentrations of crab gear, it was the perfect storm, a situation that was going to potentially cause problems,\" said Dick Ogg, a crab boat captain in Bodega Bay, who has been heavily involved in the crab gear working group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11735068]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When they didn't see enough action to prevent future entanglements in 2016, the Center for Biological Diversity filed suit against the state fish and wildlife agency in 2017, charging that the state needed to have a federal incidental take permit — governing the conservation of endangered species, like the leatherback sea turtles and particular types of humpback whales that were getting entangled in the fishery's gear — to allow the crab fishery to continue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The suit was delayed initially, but earlier this year a federal judge said it would go forward, prompting CBD, DFW and the Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen's Associations (PCFFA) to negotiate a settlement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the fishery is closing April 15 this year, it will close for districts south of Mendocino on April 1 beginning in 2020, unless auditors determine there is low risk of entanglements, which will be monitored every two weeks after April 1. These restrictions will be in place until the federal permit is attained, to avoid having crab gear and migrating whales in the water at the same time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crabbers using ropeless gear will be able to continue fishing past the spring closure, which both DFW and CBD hope will spur adoption of new \"smart\" crab pots that use sensor-equipped buoys and pots, and GPS, instead of rope. The ropeless gear is fairly new and expensive — around $15,000 compared to a $200 traditional crab pot. But if enough crabbers are incentivized to make the investment to extend their seasons, the hope is that the technology will scale, bringing prices down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The crab fishery has opened late three out of the last four years due to persistent domoic acid issues triggered by climate change. Spring closures could further shrink the season for fishers, potentially costing the nearly $70 million industry millions of dollars in lost revenue annually.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CDFW Director Chuck Bonham has reached out to federal representatives in an attempt to secure a disaster payment owed to fishers since the 2015 closures, and said the state needs to start thinking through how it will help rural coastal communities adapt to climate change and how it will support fisheries, including incentivizing ropeless gear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What does it look like to have the right wharfs and infrastructure for chillers and boats, and what does it look like to prepare them for the future?\" Bonham said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The West Coast Dungeness crab fishery is one of the most sustainable in the country, as it's self-replenishing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The paradoxical nature of this is really challenging to accept,\" PCFFA Executive Director Noah Oppenheim said. \"That we would be looking at closures in an otherwise healthy fishery — whether it's driven by domoic acid or other factors — to close a fishery that's doing well is something new in American fisheries management, and we need to treat it differently from the kinds of closures that we've had to institute when climate forces or overfishing have resulted in stock depletion. It's a new phenomenon.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=bayareabites_127300]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The PCFFA has recently taken matters into its own hands and filed suit against the country's largest oil producers for their role in both contributing to climate change and working to cover up its imminent threat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are going to be looking at domoic acid impacts driven by climate change every single season in perpetuity, and it's disruptive, it's damaging, it destroys communities. And we do not have appropriate mechanisms to support fishermen when these events occur. We have to do something, and that something to date has been closing and waiting multiple years for federal disaster assistance that may not ever be delivered,\" Oppenheim said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's crystal-clear that prevailing ocean conditions in 2015 and 2016 and since have been driven by destabilizing atmospheric forces, and ocean circulation dynamics have been changing because of climate change,\" he said. \"It's indisputable, and the fossil fuel industry doesn't dispute the science. What they dispute is whether they're culpable. But they are liable and we're holding them to account. We're gonna make them pay.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The Associated Press contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"April 15 closure is tied to settlement of lawsuit centered around the entanglement of whales and leatherback sea turtles in crab-fishing gear. 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She said many of the conditions present that year have persisted: The crab fishery has had a delayed start three out of the last four years due to high domoic acid levels driven by warming waters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A preliminary count for 2018 showed 45 whale entanglements on the West Coast, compared with 31 confirmed entanglements in 2017. Between 2000 and 2014, the West Coast saw an average of 10 entanglements per year, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'With warm water, no krill, high concentrations of crab gear, it was the perfect storm.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"”right”","citation":"Dick Ogg, crab boat captain","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What no one disagrees on is that climate change has altered ocean conditions in ways that are harmful to both whales and the livelihoods of fishers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There are several reasons why people think we're seeing a big spike in entanglements. One is climate change,\" Monsell said. \"The whales are going into and staying in different waters at different times of the year than they have in the past.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That shift began in 2015, when a large warm-water blob appeared off the coast of California. Warm-water currents are normal, but this was a large blob of water that was approximately 7 degrees higher than normal warm currents. That caused a spike in large algae blooms and shifted the marine food web. The algae contributed to a buildup in crab of domoic acid, a harmful neurotoxin, delaying the opening of the Dungeness crab fishing season from November 2015 to late March 2016. The warm water caused krill, the whales' preferred food, to move closer to shore, while also driving a concentration of crab in Morro and Monterey bays, spots that tend to be less popular for crabbers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"With warm water, no krill, high concentrations of crab gear, it was the perfect storm, a situation that was going to potentially cause problems,\" said Dick Ogg, a crab boat captain in Bodega Bay, who has been heavily involved in the crab gear working group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11735068","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When they didn't see enough action to prevent future entanglements in 2016, the Center for Biological Diversity filed suit against the state fish and wildlife agency in 2017, charging that the state needed to have a federal incidental take permit — governing the conservation of endangered species, like the leatherback sea turtles and particular types of humpback whales that were getting entangled in the fishery's gear — to allow the crab fishery to continue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The suit was delayed initially, but earlier this year a federal judge said it would go forward, prompting CBD, DFW and the Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen's Associations (PCFFA) to negotiate a settlement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the fishery is closing April 15 this year, it will close for districts south of Mendocino on April 1 beginning in 2020, unless auditors determine there is low risk of entanglements, which will be monitored every two weeks after April 1. These restrictions will be in place until the federal permit is attained, to avoid having crab gear and migrating whales in the water at the same time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crabbers using ropeless gear will be able to continue fishing past the spring closure, which both DFW and CBD hope will spur adoption of new \"smart\" crab pots that use sensor-equipped buoys and pots, and GPS, instead of rope. The ropeless gear is fairly new and expensive — around $15,000 compared to a $200 traditional crab pot. But if enough crabbers are incentivized to make the investment to extend their seasons, the hope is that the technology will scale, bringing prices down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The crab fishery has opened late three out of the last four years due to persistent domoic acid issues triggered by climate change. Spring closures could further shrink the season for fishers, potentially costing the nearly $70 million industry millions of dollars in lost revenue annually.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CDFW Director Chuck Bonham has reached out to federal representatives in an attempt to secure a disaster payment owed to fishers since the 2015 closures, and said the state needs to start thinking through how it will help rural coastal communities adapt to climate change and how it will support fisheries, including incentivizing ropeless gear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What does it look like to have the right wharfs and infrastructure for chillers and boats, and what does it look like to prepare them for the future?\" Bonham said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The West Coast Dungeness crab fishery is one of the most sustainable in the country, as it's self-replenishing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The paradoxical nature of this is really challenging to accept,\" PCFFA Executive Director Noah Oppenheim said. \"That we would be looking at closures in an otherwise healthy fishery — whether it's driven by domoic acid or other factors — to close a fishery that's doing well is something new in American fisheries management, and we need to treat it differently from the kinds of closures that we've had to institute when climate forces or overfishing have resulted in stock depletion. It's a new phenomenon.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"bayareabites_127300","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The PCFFA has recently taken matters into its own hands and filed suit against the country's largest oil producers for their role in both contributing to climate change and working to cover up its imminent threat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are going to be looking at domoic acid impacts driven by climate change every single season in perpetuity, and it's disruptive, it's damaging, it destroys communities. And we do not have appropriate mechanisms to support fishermen when these events occur. We have to do something, and that something to date has been closing and waiting multiple years for federal disaster assistance that may not ever be delivered,\" Oppenheim said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's crystal-clear that prevailing ocean conditions in 2015 and 2016 and since have been driven by destabilizing atmospheric forces, and ocean circulation dynamics have been changing because of climate change,\" he said. \"It's indisputable, and the fossil fuel industry doesn't dispute the science. What they dispute is whether they're culpable. But they are liable and we're holding them to account. We're gonna make them pay.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The Associated Press contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11735659/california-dungeness-crab-fishery-to-close-three-months-early-to-protect-whales","authors":["byline_news_11735659"],"programs":["news_72"],"categories":["news_19906","news_24114","news_8","news_356"],"tags":["news_255","news_19172","news_22588","news_18008","news_841"],"featImg":"news_11735810","label":"news_72"},"news_11631060":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11631060","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11631060","score":null,"sort":[1510778194000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"commercial-crab-season-kicks-off","title":"Commercial Crab Season Kicks Off","publishDate":1510778194,"format":"audio","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>At Lucas Wharf in Bodega Bay, dozens of commercial fishing boats have been preparing for California's commercial Dungeness crab season, which opened statewide on Wednesday. The recreational crab season \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/11/04/photos-no-acid-no-wait-recreational-crabbers-take-to-the-water-for-opening-day/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">kicked off already\u003c/a>, on Nov. 4.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next few weeks will be critical for fishermen like Nick Hofland of Occidental, in western Sonoma County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is the best time of year,\" says Hofland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"zXdEToPyM240cRqeesx2CI7XYPgbRKhq\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He's been loading up his boat -- the Presley Capri -- with squid and mackerel for crab bait. Next to him, a boat from Eureka named the Humbug is loading up its mesh crab pots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These fishermen are relieved because for the first time in three years, the crab season is starting on time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's kind of exciting, because they get to go for the first time [in years] no strike, no domoic acid,\" says Craig Thompson, who leases Lucas Wharf, along with Hofland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1917768\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-1917768\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/11/IMG_0728-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nick Hofland and crew load up on crab bait for the start of commercial Dungeness crab season.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Domoic acid is a toxin that accumulates in Dungeness crab and can cause severe illness if eaten.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But health officials have given both commercial and recreational crabbers the green light this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For recreational crabbers, the California Department of Public Health is \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/OPA/Pages/NR17-079.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">warning not to consume crab viscera\u003c/a> when collected from two points along the northern coast: north of Laguna Point in Mendocino County to the Humboldt Bay North Jetty, and north of the Klamath River in Humboldt County up to the Oregon border.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fishery is worth in the ballpark of $60 million for the state -- and it's also one of the most sustainable. Only males of a certain size can be caught, big enough that they’ve probably mated a couple of times already.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The fishery has been well managed and sustainably managed, so people can feel good about eating Dungeness crab this season and every year,\" says Tom Dempsey, with the Nature Conservancy in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the industry is facing challenges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"GZCH9QTRcstrm2ExmKUGhdYC5rxk22fd\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"One thing that the fishery has been dealing with in the last few years is an increase in the observed entanglements with whales,\" says Dempsey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whales \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/2017/08/10/whale-entanglements-off-california-coast-happening-at-record-pace/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">can get caught\u003c/a> in the ropes connecting crab pots to buoys floating on the surface. Prior to 2014, entanglements were rare: fewer than 10 per year. In 2016 there were 71.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The entanglements have prompted an environmental organization, the Center for Biological Diversity, to \u003ca href=\"http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/campaigns/fisheries/pdfs/17-10-3_CA_Dungeness_Crab_Entanglement_Complaint.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sue the state\u003c/a>, claiming California is failing to protect whales.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1917769\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-1917769\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/11/IMG_0722-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Crab pots in Bodega Bay waiting for the start of commercial Dungeness season.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Dempsey's organization (not involved in the lawsuit) is part of a working group, along with leaders in the crabbing industry. They develop best practices for how to deploy and collect fishing gear to avoid future entanglements as much as possible, and they train fishermen to respond to incidents. Dempsey has seen the industry take the problem very seriously, he says, and expects the number of entanglements to decrease in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Most fishermen I've talked to up and down the coast of California have said they've seen real response and real improvement in how the industry overall is fishing that gear.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fishermen also realize, he says, that there are no short-term solutions to preventing wildlife entanglements. They'll have to remain vigilant for years to come.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"For the first time in three years, California’s commercial Dungeness crab season is starting on time.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1510787752,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":22,"wordCount":562},"headData":{"title":"Commercial Crab Season Kicks Off | KQED","description":"For the first time in three years, California’s commercial Dungeness crab season is starting on time.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Commercial Crab Season Kicks Off","datePublished":"2017-11-15T20:36:34.000Z","dateModified":"2017-11-15T23:15:52.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11631060 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11631060","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/11/15/commercial-crab-season-kicks-off/","disqusTitle":"Commercial Crab Season Kicks Off","audioUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/tcr/2017/11/CommercialCrabSeasonVenton.mp3","path":"/news/11631060/commercial-crab-season-kicks-off","audioDuration":129000,"audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>At Lucas Wharf in Bodega Bay, dozens of commercial fishing boats have been preparing for California's commercial Dungeness crab season, which opened statewide on Wednesday. The recreational crab season \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/11/04/photos-no-acid-no-wait-recreational-crabbers-take-to-the-water-for-opening-day/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">kicked off already\u003c/a>, on Nov. 4.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next few weeks will be critical for fishermen like Nick Hofland of Occidental, in western Sonoma County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is the best time of year,\" says Hofland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He's been loading up his boat -- the Presley Capri -- with squid and mackerel for crab bait. Next to him, a boat from Eureka named the Humbug is loading up its mesh crab pots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These fishermen are relieved because for the first time in three years, the crab season is starting on time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's kind of exciting, because they get to go for the first time [in years] no strike, no domoic acid,\" says Craig Thompson, who leases Lucas Wharf, along with Hofland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1917768\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-1917768\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/11/IMG_0728-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nick Hofland and crew load up on crab bait for the start of commercial Dungeness crab season.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Domoic acid is a toxin that accumulates in Dungeness crab and can cause severe illness if eaten.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But health officials have given both commercial and recreational crabbers the green light this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For recreational crabbers, the California Department of Public Health is \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/OPA/Pages/NR17-079.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">warning not to consume crab viscera\u003c/a> when collected from two points along the northern coast: north of Laguna Point in Mendocino County to the Humboldt Bay North Jetty, and north of the Klamath River in Humboldt County up to the Oregon border.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fishery is worth in the ballpark of $60 million for the state -- and it's also one of the most sustainable. Only males of a certain size can be caught, big enough that they’ve probably mated a couple of times already.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The fishery has been well managed and sustainably managed, so people can feel good about eating Dungeness crab this season and every year,\" says Tom Dempsey, with the Nature Conservancy in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the industry is facing challenges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"One thing that the fishery has been dealing with in the last few years is an increase in the observed entanglements with whales,\" says Dempsey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whales \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/2017/08/10/whale-entanglements-off-california-coast-happening-at-record-pace/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">can get caught\u003c/a> in the ropes connecting crab pots to buoys floating on the surface. Prior to 2014, entanglements were rare: fewer than 10 per year. In 2016 there were 71.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The entanglements have prompted an environmental organization, the Center for Biological Diversity, to \u003ca href=\"http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/campaigns/fisheries/pdfs/17-10-3_CA_Dungeness_Crab_Entanglement_Complaint.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sue the state\u003c/a>, claiming California is failing to protect whales.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1917769\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-1917769\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/11/IMG_0722-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Crab pots in Bodega Bay waiting for the start of commercial Dungeness season.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Dempsey's organization (not involved in the lawsuit) is part of a working group, along with leaders in the crabbing industry. They develop best practices for how to deploy and collect fishing gear to avoid future entanglements as much as possible, and they train fishermen to respond to incidents. Dempsey has seen the industry take the problem very seriously, he says, and expects the number of entanglements to decrease in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Most fishermen I've talked to up and down the coast of California have said they've seen real response and real improvement in how the industry overall is fishing that gear.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fishermen also realize, he says, that there are no short-term solutions to preventing wildlife entanglements. They'll have to remain vigilant for years to come.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11631060/commercial-crab-season-kicks-off","authors":["11088"],"programs":["news_6944","news_72"],"categories":["news_1758","news_19906","news_8","news_356"],"tags":["news_19190","news_19172","news_18008","news_17286","news_841"],"featImg":"news_11631062","label":"news_72"},"news_11628089":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11628089","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11628089","score":null,"sort":[1510085630000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"california-ecologists-strike-back-against-invasive-green-crabs","title":"California Ecologists Strike Back Against Invasive Green Crabs","publishDate":1510085630,"format":"image","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>As far as crabs go, the European green crab might not look like much. They're small -- only about 4 inches wide -- and lack the giant claws of fiddler crabs or spindly limbs of king crabs. But don’t be fooled. Green crabs are voracious predators that rank among the world’s \u003ca href=\"http://rewilding.org/rewildit/images/IUCN-GISP.pdf\">worst invasive species\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scientists estimate green crabs cost the fishing industry close to $19 million annually \u003ca href=\"https://yosemite.epa.gov/ee/epa/eerm.nsf/vwAN/EE-0513-01.pdf/%24file/EE-0513-01.pdf\">on the East Coast alone\u003c/a>. And in recent years, they have been spotted along the West Coast from Monterey Bay to British Columbia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A consortium of California ecologists, dubbed the \u003ca href=\"http://www.des.ucdavis.edu/faculty/grosholz/GreenCrab/index.html\">Green Crab Project,\u003c/a> is striking back. The team has been removing thousands of European green crabs from a small inlet north of San Francisco called Seadrift Lagoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This sleepy Marin County vacation spot holds the highest concentration of the invasive species on the West Coast. When the Green Crab Project launched in 2009, the crabs' population in Seadrift approached 90,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[audio src=\"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/tcr/2017/11/InvasiveCrabsArcuni.mp3\" Image=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27838_Green-Crab-1-uncropped-1920x1082.jpg\" Title=\"Ecologists Strike Back Against Invasive Green Crabs\" program=\"The California Report\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People around here tell stories about how they would walk into the lagoon or start swimming in the lagoon, and the crabs would be crawling over their feet and legs,” said Kate Bimrose, who coordinates the project for the \u003ca href=\"http://farallones.org/\">Greater Farallones Association\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bimrose and her colleagues make weekly trips to Seadrift each summer, hauling out hundreds of crabs a day from traps off single-seat kayaks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bimrose says green crabs pose a serious threat to commercial fisheries in the region because they decimate populations of native clams, mussels and other crabs. The ripple effects threaten the entire coastal food web, from Dungeness crab to large fish and shorebirds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ecological and economic fallout has yet to reach the levels observed on the East Coast. But scientists like Ted Grosholz, whose lab at UC Davis is a major contributor to the Green Crab Project, believes it may only be a matter of time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They seem to be able to make their way into new places and then adapt to new conditions,” Grosholz said. “So there is the very real concern that the number of green crabs could increase dramatically.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Green crabs were first observed on the West Coast in San Francisco Bay in 1989. Researchers think they hitchhiked here in boxes of live fishing bait shipped from the East Coast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11628298\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11628298\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27839_Gravid-Crab-qut-800x451.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"451\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27839_Gravid-Crab-qut-800x451.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27839_Gravid-Crab-qut-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27839_Gravid-Crab-qut-1020x575.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27839_Gravid-Crab-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27839_Gravid-Crab-qut-1180x665.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27839_Gravid-Crab-qut-960x541.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27839_Gravid-Crab-qut-240x135.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27839_Gravid-Crab-qut-375x211.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27839_Gravid-Crab-qut-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A female European green crab gravid with eggs. Ecologists say a single female can disperse up to a million eggs over its life span. \u003ccite>(Peter Arcuni/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Once established, the crabs can spread to other bays in the ballast waters of ships or on currents in the larval state. And because Seadrift exchanges water with the adjacent Bolinas Lagoon -- which connects to a larger system of currents -- the crabs here have potential to fuel a much larger population boom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grosholz says the removal efforts in Seadrift have been a proving ground for how to best control invasive species.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2014, after the team had removed most of the larger adult crabs from the lagoon, they saw the population skyrocket to over 300,000. It turns outs the adults cannibalize baby green crabs, keeping the population in check.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"jYl1WBVonvGO08ORcrZn52Hj5RxIPFRN\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we did was undertake a management method, to find it failed horribly,” Grosholz said. “So now we have a strong recommendation for future efforts to control species like this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grosholz's findings help support an environmental theory known as overcompensation. The idea posits that controlling an invasive species can backfire unless it's possible to remove every individual at once.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The team now leaves a number of adult crabs in the lagoon so the population can, in part, manage itself. Grosholz says introducing other predatory species like leopard sharks could also help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11628300\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11628300\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27840_DSCF2586-qut-800x451.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"451\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27840_DSCF2586-qut-800x451.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27840_DSCF2586-qut-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27840_DSCF2586-qut-1020x575.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27840_DSCF2586-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27840_DSCF2586-qut-1180x665.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27840_DSCF2586-qut-960x541.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27840_DSCF2586-qut-240x135.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27840_DSCF2586-qut-375x211.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27840_DSCF2586-qut-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A plastic tub filled with green crabs pulled from Seadrift Lagoon one morning in August. \u003ccite>(Peter Arcuni/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The population of green crabs in Seadrift has now dropped below 40,000. That's a much more manageable number, according to Grosholz -- though he admits there is still an element of “wait and worry” when it comes to the fate of the West Coast green crab invasion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Andy Chang, an ecologist with the Green Crab Project, likens the challenge of fending off the invasion to figuring out how to “put the toothpaste back in the tube.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After years of trial and error, Bimrose says they have begun to see the return of other species to Seadrift Lagoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When we first started this project, there weren’t much in the way of other species. Pretty much everything you got was all green crabs,\" she said. This summer, the team started seeing a small number of shrimp and fish, and even a handful of other crabs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what happens to the thousands of green crabs pulled from Seadrift each year? So far, their best use is as fertilizer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have been told by the farm owners that the green crabs make for great crop fertilizer due to the large amounts of calcium in their exoskeleton combined with nitrogen in the tissue,\" said the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC), which has a lab in Marin and participates in the Green Crab Project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We like to call it a fully surf-to-turf project,\" Bimrose said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This post has been updated.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The ripple effects from their growing population threaten fisheries and the entire coastal food web — but scientists are figuring out how to fight them.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1510098905,"stats":{"hasAudio":true,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":27,"wordCount":933},"headData":{"title":"California Ecologists Strike Back Against Invasive Green Crabs | KQED","description":"The ripple effects from their growing population threaten fisheries and the entire coastal food web — but scientists are figuring out how to fight them.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"California Ecologists Strike Back Against Invasive Green Crabs","datePublished":"2017-11-07T20:13:50.000Z","dateModified":"2017-11-07T23:55:05.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11628089 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11628089","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/11/07/california-ecologists-strike-back-against-invasive-green-crabs/","disqusTitle":"California Ecologists Strike Back Against Invasive Green Crabs","path":"/news/11628089/california-ecologists-strike-back-against-invasive-green-crabs","audioUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/tcr/2017/11/InvasiveCrabsArcuni.mp3","audioDuration":188000,"audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>As far as crabs go, the European green crab might not look like much. They're small -- only about 4 inches wide -- and lack the giant claws of fiddler crabs or spindly limbs of king crabs. But don’t be fooled. Green crabs are voracious predators that rank among the world’s \u003ca href=\"http://rewilding.org/rewildit/images/IUCN-GISP.pdf\">worst invasive species\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scientists estimate green crabs cost the fishing industry close to $19 million annually \u003ca href=\"https://yosemite.epa.gov/ee/epa/eerm.nsf/vwAN/EE-0513-01.pdf/%24file/EE-0513-01.pdf\">on the East Coast alone\u003c/a>. And in recent years, they have been spotted along the West Coast from Monterey Bay to British Columbia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A consortium of California ecologists, dubbed the \u003ca href=\"http://www.des.ucdavis.edu/faculty/grosholz/GreenCrab/index.html\">Green Crab Project,\u003c/a> is striking back. The team has been removing thousands of European green crabs from a small inlet north of San Francisco called Seadrift Lagoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This sleepy Marin County vacation spot holds the highest concentration of the invasive species on the West Coast. When the Green Crab Project launched in 2009, the crabs' population in Seadrift approached 90,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"audio","attributes":{"named":{"src":"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/tcr/2017/11/InvasiveCrabsArcuni.mp3","image":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27838_Green-Crab-1-uncropped-1920x1082.jpg","title":"Ecologists Strike Back Against Invasive Green Crabs","program":"The California Report","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People around here tell stories about how they would walk into the lagoon or start swimming in the lagoon, and the crabs would be crawling over their feet and legs,” said Kate Bimrose, who coordinates the project for the \u003ca href=\"http://farallones.org/\">Greater Farallones Association\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bimrose and her colleagues make weekly trips to Seadrift each summer, hauling out hundreds of crabs a day from traps off single-seat kayaks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bimrose says green crabs pose a serious threat to commercial fisheries in the region because they decimate populations of native clams, mussels and other crabs. The ripple effects threaten the entire coastal food web, from Dungeness crab to large fish and shorebirds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ecological and economic fallout has yet to reach the levels observed on the East Coast. But scientists like Ted Grosholz, whose lab at UC Davis is a major contributor to the Green Crab Project, believes it may only be a matter of time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They seem to be able to make their way into new places and then adapt to new conditions,” Grosholz said. “So there is the very real concern that the number of green crabs could increase dramatically.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Green crabs were first observed on the West Coast in San Francisco Bay in 1989. Researchers think they hitchhiked here in boxes of live fishing bait shipped from the East Coast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11628298\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11628298\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27839_Gravid-Crab-qut-800x451.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"451\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27839_Gravid-Crab-qut-800x451.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27839_Gravid-Crab-qut-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27839_Gravid-Crab-qut-1020x575.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27839_Gravid-Crab-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27839_Gravid-Crab-qut-1180x665.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27839_Gravid-Crab-qut-960x541.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27839_Gravid-Crab-qut-240x135.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27839_Gravid-Crab-qut-375x211.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27839_Gravid-Crab-qut-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A female European green crab gravid with eggs. Ecologists say a single female can disperse up to a million eggs over its life span. \u003ccite>(Peter Arcuni/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Once established, the crabs can spread to other bays in the ballast waters of ships or on currents in the larval state. And because Seadrift exchanges water with the adjacent Bolinas Lagoon -- which connects to a larger system of currents -- the crabs here have potential to fuel a much larger population boom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grosholz says the removal efforts in Seadrift have been a proving ground for how to best control invasive species.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2014, after the team had removed most of the larger adult crabs from the lagoon, they saw the population skyrocket to over 300,000. It turns outs the adults cannibalize baby green crabs, keeping the population in check.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we did was undertake a management method, to find it failed horribly,” Grosholz said. “So now we have a strong recommendation for future efforts to control species like this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grosholz's findings help support an environmental theory known as overcompensation. The idea posits that controlling an invasive species can backfire unless it's possible to remove every individual at once.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The team now leaves a number of adult crabs in the lagoon so the population can, in part, manage itself. Grosholz says introducing other predatory species like leopard sharks could also help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11628300\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11628300\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27840_DSCF2586-qut-800x451.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"451\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27840_DSCF2586-qut-800x451.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27840_DSCF2586-qut-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27840_DSCF2586-qut-1020x575.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27840_DSCF2586-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27840_DSCF2586-qut-1180x665.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27840_DSCF2586-qut-960x541.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27840_DSCF2586-qut-240x135.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27840_DSCF2586-qut-375x211.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27840_DSCF2586-qut-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A plastic tub filled with green crabs pulled from Seadrift Lagoon one morning in August. \u003ccite>(Peter Arcuni/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The population of green crabs in Seadrift has now dropped below 40,000. That's a much more manageable number, according to Grosholz -- though he admits there is still an element of “wait and worry” when it comes to the fate of the West Coast green crab invasion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Andy Chang, an ecologist with the Green Crab Project, likens the challenge of fending off the invasion to figuring out how to “put the toothpaste back in the tube.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After years of trial and error, Bimrose says they have begun to see the return of other species to Seadrift Lagoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When we first started this project, there weren’t much in the way of other species. Pretty much everything you got was all green crabs,\" she said. This summer, the team started seeing a small number of shrimp and fish, and even a handful of other crabs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what happens to the thousands of green crabs pulled from Seadrift each year? So far, their best use is as fertilizer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have been told by the farm owners that the green crabs make for great crop fertilizer due to the large amounts of calcium in their exoskeleton combined with nitrogen in the tissue,\" said the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC), which has a lab in Marin and participates in the Green Crab Project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We like to call it a fully surf-to-turf project,\" Bimrose said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This post has been updated.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11628089/california-ecologists-strike-back-against-invasive-green-crabs","authors":["11368"],"programs":["news_6944","news_72"],"categories":["news_19906","news_8","news_356"],"tags":["news_18132","news_19542","news_18008","news_17286","news_17041"],"featImg":"news_11628297","label":"news_72"},"news_11628304":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11628304","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11628304","score":null,"sort":[1509835785000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"photos-no-acid-no-wait-recreational-crabbers-take-to-the-water-for-opening-day","title":"PHOTOS: No Acid, No Wait: Recreational Crabbers Take to the Water for Opening Day","publishDate":1509835785,"format":"audio","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>After years of seasonal delays due to dangerous domoic acid levels, \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/11/03/fishermen-optimistic-as-recreational-crab-season-opens-saturday/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recreational crab season kicked off today\u003c/a> without health advisories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On opening day in Sonoma County's Bodega Bay, people flocked to the water to snag some fresh crab. Whether on a boat, kayak or from the shore, traps were set out along the coast by eager crabbers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Truncated crab seasons over the last couple of years have hit fishermen hard, which is why many were eager to celebrate the lack of delay this year. \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/2015/11/05/why-is-an-algae-bloom-closing-crab-season-in-california/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Algae blooms\u003c/a> can cause a buildup of the poisonous acid and, once in the food chain, can become toxic to humans. The Health Department did not issue an advisory yet but will continue monitoring levels as commercial seasons begin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Commercial crab season is slated to start Nov. 15 for the Sonoma-Mendocino county lines, and Dec. 1 for northern areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11628320\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11628320 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-31-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Garret Medeiros, of Novato, and his dog joined other eager fisherman for opening day.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-31-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-31-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-31-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-31-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-31-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-31-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-31-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-31-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-31-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Novato resident Garret Medeiros and his dog joined other eager fishermen for opening day. \u003ccite>(Tiffany Camhi/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11628323\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11628323\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-32-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Crab pots, like this one, are baited with chicken and squid to attract crabs. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-32-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-32-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-32-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-32-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-32-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-32-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-32-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-32-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-32-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Crab pots, like this one, are baited with chicken and squid to attract crabs. \u003ccite>(Tiffany Camhi/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11628324\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11628324 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-33-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Pallets stacked high with hundreds of traps sit on the Spud Point Marina.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-33-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-33-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-33-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-33-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-33-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-33-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-33-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-33-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-33-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pallets stacked high with hundreds of traps sit on the Spud Point Marina in Bodega Bay. \u003ccite>(Tiffany Camhi/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11628326\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11628326 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-35-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Fairfield resident, Drew Rutherford, shows off freshly caught crab. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-35-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-35-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-35-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-35-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-35-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-35-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-35-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-35-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-35-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fairfield resident Drew Rutherford shows off freshly caught crab. \u003ccite>(Tiffany Camhi/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11628328\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11628328 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-36-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A container full of fresh catches. Fisherman were glad that there wasn't a delay to the season, as there had been in previous years. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-36-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-36-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-36-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-36-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-36-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-36-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-36-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-36-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-36-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A container full of fresh catches. Fishermen were glad that there wasn't a delay to the season, as there had been in previous years. \u003ccite>(Tiffany Camhi/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11628335\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11628335 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/crab1-800x497.jpg\" alt=\"Sophann Yon of Roseville washes off rock crab caught from his kayak. He started at 1 a.m. this morning. \" width=\"800\" height=\"497\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/crab1-800x497.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/crab1-160x99.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/crab1-1020x634.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/crab1-1180x733.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/crab1-960x597.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/crab1-240x149.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/crab1-375x233.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/crab1-520x323.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/crab1.jpg 1902w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sophann Yon of Roseville washes off rock crab caught from his kayak. He started fishing at 1 a.m. today. \u003ccite>(Tiffany Camhi/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Excessive amounts of domoic acid have delayed the start of crab season the past two years.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1561579773,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":6,"wordCount":263},"headData":{"title":"PHOTOS: No Acid, No Wait: Recreational Crabbers Take to the Water for Opening Day | KQED","description":"Excessive amounts of domoic acid have delayed the start of crab season the past two years.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"PHOTOS: No Acid, No Wait: Recreational Crabbers Take to the Water for Opening Day","datePublished":"2017-11-04T22:49:45.000Z","dateModified":"2019-06-26T20:09:33.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11628304 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11628304","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/11/04/photos-no-acid-no-wait-recreational-crabbers-take-to-the-water-for-opening-day/","disqusTitle":"PHOTOS: No Acid, No Wait: Recreational Crabbers Take to the Water for Opening Day","audioUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/tcr/2019/06/AudioforCrabsSeason1.mp3","path":"/news/11628304/photos-no-acid-no-wait-recreational-crabbers-take-to-the-water-for-opening-day","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>After years of seasonal delays due to dangerous domoic acid levels, \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/11/03/fishermen-optimistic-as-recreational-crab-season-opens-saturday/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recreational crab season kicked off today\u003c/a> without health advisories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On opening day in Sonoma County's Bodega Bay, people flocked to the water to snag some fresh crab. Whether on a boat, kayak or from the shore, traps were set out along the coast by eager crabbers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Truncated crab seasons over the last couple of years have hit fishermen hard, which is why many were eager to celebrate the lack of delay this year. \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/2015/11/05/why-is-an-algae-bloom-closing-crab-season-in-california/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Algae blooms\u003c/a> can cause a buildup of the poisonous acid and, once in the food chain, can become toxic to humans. The Health Department did not issue an advisory yet but will continue monitoring levels as commercial seasons begin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Commercial crab season is slated to start Nov. 15 for the Sonoma-Mendocino county lines, and Dec. 1 for northern areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11628320\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11628320 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-31-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Garret Medeiros, of Novato, and his dog joined other eager fisherman for opening day.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-31-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-31-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-31-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-31-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-31-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-31-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-31-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-31-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-31-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Novato resident Garret Medeiros and his dog joined other eager fishermen for opening day. \u003ccite>(Tiffany Camhi/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11628323\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11628323\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-32-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Crab pots, like this one, are baited with chicken and squid to attract crabs. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-32-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-32-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-32-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-32-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-32-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-32-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-32-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-32-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-32-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Crab pots, like this one, are baited with chicken and squid to attract crabs. \u003ccite>(Tiffany Camhi/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11628324\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11628324 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-33-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Pallets stacked high with hundreds of traps sit on the Spud Point Marina.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-33-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-33-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-33-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-33-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-33-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-33-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-33-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-33-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-33-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pallets stacked high with hundreds of traps sit on the Spud Point Marina in Bodega Bay. \u003ccite>(Tiffany Camhi/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11628326\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11628326 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-35-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Fairfield resident, Drew Rutherford, shows off freshly caught crab. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-35-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-35-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-35-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-35-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-35-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-35-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-35-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-35-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-35-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fairfield resident Drew Rutherford shows off freshly caught crab. \u003ccite>(Tiffany Camhi/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11628328\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11628328 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-36-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A container full of fresh catches. Fisherman were glad that there wasn't a delay to the season, as there had been in previous years. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-36-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-36-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-36-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-36-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-36-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-36-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-36-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-36-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-36-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A container full of fresh catches. Fishermen were glad that there wasn't a delay to the season, as there had been in previous years. \u003ccite>(Tiffany Camhi/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11628335\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11628335 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/crab1-800x497.jpg\" alt=\"Sophann Yon of Roseville washes off rock crab caught from his kayak. He started at 1 a.m. this morning. \" width=\"800\" height=\"497\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/crab1-800x497.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/crab1-160x99.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/crab1-1020x634.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/crab1-1180x733.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/crab1-960x597.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/crab1-240x149.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/crab1-375x233.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/crab1-520x323.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/crab1.jpg 1902w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sophann Yon of Roseville washes off rock crab caught from his kayak. He started fishing at 1 a.m. today. \u003ccite>(Tiffany Camhi/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11628304/photos-no-acid-no-wait-recreational-crabbers-take-to-the-water-for-opening-day","authors":["3251"],"programs":["news_6944","news_72"],"categories":["news_8","news_356"],"tags":["news_19190","news_19172","news_18008","news_333"],"featImg":"news_11628313","label":"news_72"},"news_11627700":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11627700","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11627700","score":null,"sort":[1509743766000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"fishermen-optimistic-as-recreational-crab-season-opens-saturday","title":"Fishermen Optimistic as Recreational Crab Season Opens Saturday","publishDate":1509743766,"format":"audio","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>This weekend marks the start of Dungeness crab season in California. Recreational crabbing kicks off Saturday for the entire coast, with the commercial season set to follow later this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After two years of health advisories and costly delays to the season due to dangerous levels of \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2017/01/10/warmer-oceans-could-boost-the-toxins-in-your-shellfish-dinner/\">domoic acid\u003c/a> found in crabs, fishermen are optimistic this season will open without a hitch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If all goes according to plan, and we expect it will, there will be Thanksgiving crab in California this year. And that’ll be a first in recent memory,\" said Noah Oppenheim of the \u003ca href=\"https://pcffa.org/\">Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen’s Associations\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Commercial crab season is scheduled for Nov. 15 for the Sonoma-Mendocino county line and points south. The northern region is slated for Dec. 1.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oppenheim says the outlook is a huge relief to the California fishing industry, which has been \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/02/19/fishermen-struggle-as-commercial-dungeness-crab-season-stays-closed/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hit hard\u003c/a> by truncated crab seasons and environmental factors that have impacted the state's fisheries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We’ve seen year after year of declining salmon runs, and in the place of salmon, crab has really emerged,\" he said. \"When we see declines or delays, that results in real economic destabilization, not just for fishermen, but throughout the seafood economy.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Domoic acid is a byproduct of algal blooms that typically occur in summer months. Once the toxin gets into the food chain, it can build up inside crab and other shellfish, making them dangerous to eat. Domoic acid poisoning in humans may result in dizziness and vomiting, and can be potentially fatal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state's Department of Public Health will continue to monitor levels of domoic acid in crabs leading up to the commercial season openers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A portion of crabs from the northern portion of the California coast have recently shown \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CEH/DFDCS/CDPH%20Document%20Library/FDB/FoodSafetyProgram/DomoicAcid/CrabDA17-18.pdf\">elevated levels of the toxin\u003c/a>. But as water temperatures continue to cool through the month, that could change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Biologists who work on the algae that produces domoic acid have shown that it’s tied to warm water events or warmer ocean temperatures,\" said Christy Juhasz, who manages the Dungeness crab fishery for the California Department of Fish and Wildlife.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Juhasz says that the toxins typically don't linger in the animal's tissue once the algae is gone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Health officials have yet to issue any \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Pages/results.aspx?k=#k=crab\">advisories\u003c/a> for eating crab you catch yourself this season. 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Recreational crabbing kicks off Saturday for the entire coast, with the commercial season set to follow later this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After two years of health advisories and costly delays to the season due to dangerous levels of \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2017/01/10/warmer-oceans-could-boost-the-toxins-in-your-shellfish-dinner/\">domoic acid\u003c/a> found in crabs, fishermen are optimistic this season will open without a hitch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If all goes according to plan, and we expect it will, there will be Thanksgiving crab in California this year. And that’ll be a first in recent memory,\" said Noah Oppenheim of the \u003ca href=\"https://pcffa.org/\">Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen’s Associations\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Commercial crab season is scheduled for Nov. 15 for the Sonoma-Mendocino county line and points south. The northern region is slated for Dec. 1.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oppenheim says the outlook is a huge relief to the California fishing industry, which has been \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/02/19/fishermen-struggle-as-commercial-dungeness-crab-season-stays-closed/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hit hard\u003c/a> by truncated crab seasons and environmental factors that have impacted the state's fisheries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We’ve seen year after year of declining salmon runs, and in the place of salmon, crab has really emerged,\" he said. \"When we see declines or delays, that results in real economic destabilization, not just for fishermen, but throughout the seafood economy.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Domoic acid is a byproduct of algal blooms that typically occur in summer months. 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But as water temperatures continue to cool through the month, that could change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Biologists who work on the algae that produces domoic acid have shown that it’s tied to warm water events or warmer ocean temperatures,\" said Christy Juhasz, who manages the Dungeness crab fishery for the California Department of Fish and Wildlife.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Juhasz says that the toxins typically don't linger in the animal's tissue once the algae is gone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Health officials have yet to issue any \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Pages/results.aspx?k=#k=crab\">advisories\u003c/a> for eating crab you catch yourself this season. 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