The governor issued an order suspending all fishing in Bay Area waters contaminated with fuel from Thursday’s Golden Gate oil spill, reports Julia Scott in the County Times. The ban is in effect until Dec 1, but htis oculd change if the Dept of Fish and Game decides there is no major human health risk.
The no-catch zones are expected to include all Bay Area counties from San Francisco and San Mateo to Solano County, but the California Department of Fish and Game has yet to determine the exact boundaries of the closure.
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The ban affects commercial and sport fishermen and arriveson the cusp of Thursday’s highly-anticipated Dungeness crab season opener. Fishermen throughout the Bay Area voted to ask the governor to delay the season last weekend due to the chance that someone could become sick from eating a contaminated crab, and thus ruin the season for everyone.
There’s a lot of great detail from Pillar Point Harbor in the original story.
