The dive community has long treated the Casino Point Dive Park as a de facto marine reserve so the critters in it would be there for all to see and enjoy.
However, there are those who take advantage of this and take lobster from it. Weeks before season started, we were seeing discarded carapaces with no tails suggesting that divers had been taking them. The night after season opened, someone took at least one bug and left the antennae and many legs discarded within the wall at the dive park steps.
Eventually I hope those who disrespect the Fish & Game laws are caught and punished. Poachers leave a bad taste in my regulator. Those who disrespect the desire of most of the dive community to protect Casino Point for others to enjoy deserve my ire as well.
In addition to removing bugs from that ecosystem, you are making them leery of us no take divers as well. I noticed a few weeks before season began that the lobster I tried to film at night became very skittish when my video lights caught them. Prior to that they were much less so.
Show some respect! I realize the vast majority of divers do not do such things, so this is directed at the few who do. Come December hopefully we can bring legal action against these few... or vigilante justice. Using a speargun is illegal in City waters... but apparently not topside from my read of the ordinance!
However, there are those who take advantage of this and take lobster from it. Weeks before season started, we were seeing discarded carapaces with no tails suggesting that divers had been taking them. The night after season opened, someone took at least one bug and left the antennae and many legs discarded within the wall at the dive park steps.
Eventually I hope those who disrespect the Fish & Game laws are caught and punished. Poachers leave a bad taste in my regulator. Those who disrespect the desire of most of the dive community to protect Casino Point for others to enjoy deserve my ire as well.
In addition to removing bugs from that ecosystem, you are making them leery of us no take divers as well. I noticed a few weeks before season began that the lobster I tried to film at night became very skittish when my video lights caught them. Prior to that they were much less so.
Show some respect! I realize the vast majority of divers do not do such things, so this is directed at the few who do. Come December hopefully we can bring legal action against these few... or vigilante justice. Using a speargun is illegal in City waters... but apparently not topside from my read of the ordinance!