09-11-2003, 07:09 PM
Hi there fishfather,
With all the oriental eateries in the Long Beach/Cerritos area, I wouldn't doubt what you say is truer than true. I got the feeling when you said fisherman you meant commercial fisherman fishing under commercial fishing regulations.
I know for a fact that fish caught under a Califonia DFG sportfishing license cannot be transported live from where it is caught outside of sections 4.0-4.3, and 230 for special cases.
What is interesting is that no matter how hard I searched in the two 60+ page, 2003 freshwater and ocean sportfishing pamphlets, I couldn't find any reg there saying you can't sell 'sportfish' caught fish although I'm sure that's the case. I suppose if I looked in the 10 inch thick regulations book they have 20 pages on the subject. ha ha
One of the boats I worked on in Japan was a live fish boat. We had two holds, one for bait and the other for the live fish we caught. At the end of the trip, we'd pretty much drain the live fish hold and a crane would pick up the hold with the fish and put it on a special converted 4 ton truck and then take it to places to sell directly. These shops had huge aquariums that held even 15 pound yellowtail.
JapanRon
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With all the oriental eateries in the Long Beach/Cerritos area, I wouldn't doubt what you say is truer than true. I got the feeling when you said fisherman you meant commercial fisherman fishing under commercial fishing regulations.
I know for a fact that fish caught under a Califonia DFG sportfishing license cannot be transported live from where it is caught outside of sections 4.0-4.3, and 230 for special cases.
What is interesting is that no matter how hard I searched in the two 60+ page, 2003 freshwater and ocean sportfishing pamphlets, I couldn't find any reg there saying you can't sell 'sportfish' caught fish although I'm sure that's the case. I suppose if I looked in the 10 inch thick regulations book they have 20 pages on the subject. ha ha
One of the boats I worked on in Japan was a live fish boat. We had two holds, one for bait and the other for the live fish we caught. At the end of the trip, we'd pretty much drain the live fish hold and a crane would pick up the hold with the fish and put it on a special converted 4 ton truck and then take it to places to sell directly. These shops had huge aquariums that held even 15 pound yellowtail.
JapanRon
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