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Old 05-11-2015, 01:25 AM   #1
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Bust at Monastery beach

There was a bust today someone spearfishing at the reserve.
I had a picture from my dash cam, but I should have stopped recording, by the time I got home the camera recorded over it.
Anyway there was a CDFW and CHP at Monastery beach with the tailgate on his truck open and loaded with 5 to 8 pounders, the ones I could make out while driving looked like some kind of orange rockfish, they were not red like vermillion I counted at least 4, all the other fish were dark, also large 4 to 6 pounders.
Most likely they were taken from a diver on scuba, looked like the reserve is producing some nice fish, maybe some more news will come out tomorrow.
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Old 05-11-2015, 11:40 AM   #2
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Re: Bust at Monastery beach

Is this in Carmel?

i hope they busted his head open too
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Old 05-11-2015, 01:41 PM   #3
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Re: Bust at Monastery beach

I remember sitting on the beach there waiting for my dad to finish spearfishing. They closed it before I was old enough to start spearfishing.

Why would somebody poach there when a half mile away is decent spearfishing not in the reserve?
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Old 05-11-2015, 02:39 PM   #4
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Re: Bust at Monastery beach

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Is this in Carmel?

i hope they busted his head open too
Yes, at the south end of the beach parking area on side of hwy 1
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Old 05-11-2015, 03:47 PM   #5
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My friend scuba dives there and said he sees people fishing from kayaks right in the reserve almost every time. :\
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Old 05-11-2015, 04:29 PM   #6
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Re: Bust at Monastery beach

so many other spots nearby...
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Old 05-12-2015, 03:26 PM   #7
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Is this in Carmel?

i hope they busted his head open too
X1000 'cause I just can't get enough of police beating on citizens and paying big fat settlements with our tax dollars. Wooot!
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Re: Bust at Monastery beach

Weird how you can dive a place with your buddies one year, someone extends the reserve boundary a couple coves, and next thing someone wants to bust your head open.

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Old 05-12-2015, 05:15 PM   #9
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Weird how you can dive a place with your buddies one year, someone extends the reserve boundary a couple coves, and next thing someone wants to bust your head open.
x2. These guys broke the law and I'm sure they regret it. We all make mistakes.
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Old 05-12-2015, 05:21 PM   #10
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Weird how you can dive a place with your buddies one year, someone extends the reserve boundary a couple coves, and next thing someone wants to bust your head open.
Exactly , and the resurve should have never been expanded in the first place . Most people you ask still don't even know that it is now a resurve
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Old 05-12-2015, 09:26 PM   #11
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Re: Bust at Monastery beach

I hope those fish you saw weren't Canary Rockfish, but if they weren't Vermilion...
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I hope those fish you saw weren't Canary Rockfish, but if they weren't Vermilion...
I've caught plenty of vermilion to know they did not look like vermilion.
Way more on the orange side than red.
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Re: Bust at Monastery beach

That's what I figured.

I tried doing some research on the penalty schedule for poaching in an MPA, but I didn't find anything definitive except for this:

http://www.gc.noaa.gov/documents/gce...x-it_FINAL.pdf

Per the above document, there's a flat rate penalty for up to 10 fish, but I'm not sure if there's a by-species penalty on top of the baseline penalty for fishing an MPA.

I also saw some other judgments where repeat offenders were prosecuted by the state and given multiple years of probation and hefty fines.

Anyone have anything more specific/comprehensive?
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