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estebanana -> RE: New Kiridashi (knife) (Apr. 8 2023 15:59:02)
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ORIGINAL: BarkellWH
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Fishing is a whole other subject, and I like to catch and eat fish. I’m not judgmental of people who don’t eat the way I do. I worked in a vegan restaurant in 2010-12 at night to keep the rent paid at my guitar shop. I worked as the host in the door, as a pantry chef and a dishwasher. I liked making people happy with food and probably would have been a good chef if I had gone that route. I worked in food service for ten years in the 80’s and 90’s.
An article in today's Washington Post notes that for the first time in 14 years the Chinook salmon season will be closed this year off the California coast. Years of drought have depleted the numbers and it will take at least a year to recover.
The seasons if I remember correctly were closed 2008 to 2010 to let the stocks recover from fishing pressure. Then the season after a two year hiatus was fairly strong.
I think one of the problems with low water in the Sacramento river delta is that the Shad population has difficulty spawning and the shad is the salmons food at sea. I’m actually happy to hear this.
California has pretty good fish management, the Halibut population is healthy because commercial and sport fishing is limited to keeping fish over 23”. Halibut re-sex after they reach maturity, they are hatched males and change sex when they are about 15” or more long. Only large halibut reproduce, so by the time the halibut is 23” it’s had a few seasons of spawning.
There’s a vigorous catch and release fly fishing only policy in some areas of the Sierra Nevada drainage streams. I fished in the streams in the eastern sierra when I was younger, I caught California Golden trout, native Rainbows, Brown trout and California Cutthroat, and a few hybrids of these. A lot of fun and in some areas you can keep them.
I’m not much of a salmon eater, I prefer a salted trout cooked over a fire.
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