08-10-2014, 07:18 PM
Jc Sportfishing Weekly Fish Report.
As the Admiral Seas It
Fishing Report: 7/3/14 to 8/10/14
Stop by Our Office for up to Date Fishing Report.
[center]Fishing has Slowed This Past Week?[/center]
Jc Sportfishing Charters is a family owned and operated business and has been fishing in Cabo San Lucas for the past 18 years. Jerry, explains that his charter business is geared more for families and novice anglers, making sure everyone who charters a boat with him have a great time and lots of fun. We welcome families, and groups. We want everyone who fishes with us to take all the sites in and have memorable experience. This is what is most important to us. We have and do a few tournaments each year and can cater to fisherman who might be interested in tournament fishing. Well lets get on with the fishing report for this past week.
WEATHER: Again about the same as last week. I don’t know to say it any better than this its just plain hot. Highs ladder 90,s with lows in the lower 80,s and the humidity is intense. I guess it is to be expected this time of year in Cabo but this is the hottest summer I have felt since I have been in Cabo. Most days are pretty clear with partial clouds and if you look toward the sierras you will see it is cloudy and looks like it has been raining. Well we have a little more than 2 more months of the really hot weather so were about half way through till October and we might get some relieve after the 15th .
WATER: Closer to shore is a bit cooler than offshore and according to Tembreak. Still the water is in the mid 80,s on pacific side and higher on the Sea of Cortez side. Go to Tempbreak.com to check out map. [url "http://www.tempbreak.com/index.php?&cwregion=cb"]http://www.tempbreak.com/index.php?&cwregion=cb[/url]
TUNA: The Tuna fishing has been about the same the last few days, as we have been landing some very small Tuna, like football size, and they seem to be hitting cedar plugs and king busters. All the Tuna have been caught in the horseshoe area. I don’t know when Mexico is going to wake up and start protecting the sportfishing and all the tourist dollars that come into the area because of fishing. It seems no one is thinking of the long term affects this will have on the tourist and sportfishing industry. Not only that the sportfishing and tourist industry employee many, many families here in Los Cabos
BILLFISH: Well all the sudden the fishing really took a dive this past week and I really don’t know what happen. We were on a roll and all the sudden fishing kinda stopped. On the Bob Marlin we did land one Sailfish and one Marlin all week not much to brag about but that’s fishing.
DORADO: The Dorado fishing has been kinda weird with lots of very small Dorado being caught with some even like 2 to 3lbs with a few to 10 to 12lbs and most are being caught on lures and cut bait. Please if you are catching baby Dorado throw them back for another day. You will be surprised how fast they will grow over a year. If they aren’t over 10 pounds you might think about throwing them back.
INSHORE: The fishing in general has been very slow so the inshore bite has not been to hot either. Some very small Dorado and a few Roosters is about it. The Roosters have been caught from Grey Rock to Chileno Bay and have been landed by using live bait slow trolled. We have a real full moon coming up next week and we are hoping for a turn around in fishing.
WAHOO: We did get one Wahoo this week at the San Jamie Banks and it tipped the scales at 40lbs. We landed the fish while we were out looking for Tuna.
From The Admirals Kitchen
[center]Grilled Dorado with hot sauce beurre blanc sound good?[/center]
Use this reicpe and make it tonight! Hot sauce is a natural condiment for fried chicken and even oysters, but chef Hugh Acheson will deepen your appreciation of it. A good hot sauce, he says, “adds acid and nuance to things – that vinegary pucker thing I like.” At his Atlanta restaurant, Empire State South, his crew even makes a house hot sauce, fermenting barrels of pulverized peppers and salt and later topping off the pungent brew with some cider vinegar. You’ll find plenty of use for the bottled kind, too, especially in rich, creamy sauces or dishes that already need a punch of acid. An ingenious example: Acheson’s tweak to the Frenchiest of fish sauces, beurre blanc, from his cookbook, A New Turn in the South (R387, kalahari.com).
Ingredients
1 cucumber, seeds removed, thinly sliced
3 tbsp olive oil, divided
2 tbsp freshly squeezed lemon juice, divided
1 tbsp flat-leaf parsley, minced
3/4 tsp Maldon sea salt (or other flaky sea salt), divided
1 shallot, minced
1/2 cup cider vinegar
2 tbsp spicy sauce
115g cold unsalted butter, cubed
4 dorado fillets (120g each)
Freshly cracked pepper to taste
4 lemon wedges
Do this now
1 In a large mixing bowl, toss the cucumber with 1 tbsp olive oil, 1 tbsp lemon juice, the parsley, and 1/4 tsp salt. Set aside.
2 In a small saucepan, heat the shallot, vinegar, and remaining 1 tbsp lemon juice on medium until reduced to 2 tbsp. Add the hot sauce, lower the heat to a bare simmer and begin whisking in the cold butter; incorporate each cube completely before adding the next one. Season the mixture with a pinch of salt and keep it warm in a water bath (a metal bowl set above a pan of simmering water).
3 Set the oven rack so it’s 15cm from the grill. Heat the grill and brush a sheet pan with 1 tbsp olive oil. Season the fish with the pepper and remaining sea salt; drizzle the remaining 1 tbsp olive oil over the fish. Place the fillets on the pan and grill until they’re just opaque at the centre, 3 to 5 minutes each side.
4 Arrange the cucumber on a platter and place the fish on top. Drizzle with the beurre blanc and serve with lemon wedges.
Makes 4 servings
[center]SportFishing Conservation[/center]
A recently released economic study commissioned by The Billfish Foundation (TBF) on the billion dollar-plus annual impact sport fishing brings to Mexico's greater Cabo San Lucas/Los Cabos region, has caught the keen attention and responsive actions of two of Mexico's senators.
[img]file:///C:\DOCUME~1\CABO\LOCALS~1\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image002.gif[/img]
Citing TBF's research on the value of sport fishing to the economy of Baja California Sur and all of Mexico, Senators Luis Coppola Joffroy and Humberto Andrade Quezada have placed upon the floor of the Mexican Senate an ambitious effort to utilize sport fishing as an economic development tool for all of coastal Mexico.
[img]file:///C:\DOCUME~1\CABO\LOCALS~1\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image002.gif[/img]
Of immediate importance is a proposal to amend Mexico's national fisheries law to specifically state that marlins, sailfish, swordfish, rooster fish and dorado are to be used exclusively for sport fishing and that these species may not be sold, even if taken as by-catch by commercial fisheries.
[img]file:///C:\DOCUME~1\CABO\LOCALS~1\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image002.gif[/img]
Recent attempts by Mexico's fisheries agency, CONAPESCA, to establish liberal by-catch allowances for billfish, dorado and other species have drawn sharp criticism from sportfishing and conservation organizations.
[img]file:///C:\DOCUME~1\CABO\LOCALS~1\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image002.gif[/img]
"Once passed into law this clarifying language should prevent bureaucrats in CONAPESCA from ever again tampering with Mexico's historically profound sportfishing conservation regime," said Dr. Russell Nelson, TBF's chief scientist.
[img]file:///C:\DOCUME~1\CABO\LOCALS~1\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image002.gif[/img]
The action was based off the comprehensive 126-page research study conducted in 2007 and 2008 to estimate the dollars, jobs and tax revenues created by anglers focusing on Baja Sur's "sport fishing triangle" showing the enormous effect sport fishing tourism brings to the area. The region includes the Los Cabos communities of East Cape, San Jose del Cabo, and Cabo San Lucas, all once small fishing locales.
[img]file:///C:\DOCUME~1\CABO\LOCALS~1\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image002.gif[/img]
In recent years the region has become a major North American tourist destination driven heavily by its world-class striped marlin fishery. In turn sport fishing has also become a major provider of jobs - over 24,000 - and has brought a huge revenue stream of dollars into Mexico's economy.
[img]file:///C:\DOCUME~1\CABO\LOCALS~1\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image002.gif[/img]
Nelson, along with Guillermo Alvarez, TBF's Mexican conservation director said information was needed to communicate the importance of the Los Cabos fisheries to its local, state and national leaders.
[img]file:///C:\DOCUME~1\CABO\LOCALS~1\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image002.gif[/img]
Headquartered in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., The Billfish Foundation works with governments worldwide advancing the conservation of billfish and associated species to improve the health of oceans and regional economies. It has been assisting in the Baja Sur region since 2002.
[img]file:///C:\DOCUME~1\CABO\LOCALS~1\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image002.gif[/img]
Besides Mexico's state and federal government officials, TBF President Ellen Peel said the report was distributed to industry and academic interests in Mexico as well. The results will also be presented before the national Chamber of Commerce in Mexico City in January.
[img]file:///C:\DOCUME~1\CABO\LOCALS~1\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image002.gif[/img]
The study showed in 2007, 354,013 people, most all of them international visitors, fished in Los Cabos. While there they spent an estimated $633.6 million dollars for lodging, charter boats, food, transportation, tackle, fuel, and more. These expenditures started a series of cascading economic effects in the local economy, creating: 24,426 jobs, $245.5 U.S. million in local and federal tax revenues, and $1.125 U.S. billion in total economic activity.
[img]file:///C:\DOCUME~1\CABO\LOCALS~1\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image002.gif[/img]
Additional benefits accrued were Los Cabos angler expenditures generating an added $145 U.S. million to Mexico's Gross Domestic Product; 10,469 additional jobs created elsewhere in Mexico and $75 U.S. million in taxes added to the federal coffers.
[img]file:///C:\DOCUME~1\CABO\LOCALS~1\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image002.gif[/img]
But the area has long attracted the interests of Mexico's "fishing mafia," and illegal foreign commercial long-liners and netters in the Sea of Cortez (Gulf of California) waters and Pacific Ocean coasts.
[img]file:///C:\DOCUME~1\CABO\LOCALS~1\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image002.gif[/img]
Nelson said 88 percent of international anglers who have fished in Cabo said they would be less likely to return if they knew the commercial harvest of billfish increased.
[img]file:///C:\DOCUME~1\CABO\LOCALS~1\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image002.gif[/img]
The report revealed the most targeted species of interest for sport fishermen were dorado (also known as dolphinfish and mahi-mahi) registering nearly 95% with a success catch rate of over 81%. Marlin were second at nearly 90% with a success rate of over 82% and tuna were the third most popular at over 86% with a 75% success rate among the 10 species listed.
[img]file:///C:\DOCUME~1\CABO\LOCALS~1\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image002.gif[/img]
Juvenile dorado and tuna are also part of the food chain for the migrating billfish.
[img]file:///C:\DOCUME~1\CABO\LOCALS~1\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image002.gif[/img]
The dorado, a species that under Mexican fisheries law is supposed to be strictly relegated for sport fishing, has for years attracted the interests of illegal commercial fishing. A highly controversial new regulation - NOM-029 - allows for the "incidental" harvest of billfish, dorado and other species within Mexico's 24 year-old conservation zones.
[img]file:///C:\DOCUME~1\CABO\LOCALS~1\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image002.gif[/img]
Recent seizures of illegal dorado catches in double digit tonnage have also produced headlines in Mexican newspapers and attention to its commercial fishing mafia.
[img]file:///C:\DOCUME~1\CABO\LOCALS~1\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image002.gif[/img]
Multiple tons of the illegal dorado catches, intentionally mis labeled, have crossed into the United States by semi-tractor trailer trucks through Arizona (Nogales) and California (Tijuana.)
[img]file:///C:\DOCUME~1\CABO\LOCALS~1\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image002.gif[/img]
"This destructively affects fishing resources and the millions in tourist dollars that also support sport fishing such as catch-and-release for striped marlin in the region," said Nelson.
[img]file:///C:\DOCUME~1\CABO\LOCALS~1\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image002.gif[/img]
"This has been an up-and-down year for TBF in Mexico," said Ms. Peel," but we have ended 2008 with a huge success. Dr. Nelson's work with our economic study and Alvarez's commitment to unyielding advocacy before the Mexican government has turned the tide."
[img]file:///C:\DOCUME~1\CABO\LOCALS~1\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image002.gif[/img]
"Senators Coppola and Andrade should be hailed as true leaders in Mexico as they both clearly see that promoting sustainable development based on carefully managed sport fishing tourism is an economic and ecological win - win situation for that nation," emphasized Peel. "These two men are fighting for the region's life blood that is within the marine waters of the region - to destroy this resource would be economic suicide to thousands of jobs in Mexico."
BEWARE: Please beware of the guys in the street selling boat charters. If you wait till the day you are fishing and go to the dock where your boat is many times people will mislead you to another boat or dock trying to put you on a boat that was not meant for you. You need to have a person guide you to your boat, who is from a reputable charter company. This way there is no confusion or misleading. Please remember when renting Sport fishing boats in Cabo that you rent your boat from reputable and established business. Walk into a fishing fleet office and ask questions about what you are getting and what are the costs? You dont want to rent boats from vendors in the streets and you do not want to book through shady websites offering you the world. Check through travel forums about reputable fishing fleets to deal with. Look for testimonials about the fleet your booking your charter with. Ask about what will the boat be supplying? Will it include beverages or lunches? How much does it cost to fillet your catch? Check to see if charter boat is insured? Ask about getting your catch smoked? Check cost of fishing license. These are just a few things to consider when booking your charter boat. We will be talking more about this in next weeks fishing report. Until next time good fishing and we hope to see you in Cabo soon. Come by the office here in Cabo and get all the latest up to date fishing report. [url "http://www.jcsportfishing.com"]http://www.jcsportfishing.com[/url] http://youtu.be/tSXN6pifQyQ
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As the Admiral Seas It
Fishing Report: 7/3/14 to 8/10/14
Stop by Our Office for up to Date Fishing Report.
[center]Fishing has Slowed This Past Week?[/center]
Jc Sportfishing Charters is a family owned and operated business and has been fishing in Cabo San Lucas for the past 18 years. Jerry, explains that his charter business is geared more for families and novice anglers, making sure everyone who charters a boat with him have a great time and lots of fun. We welcome families, and groups. We want everyone who fishes with us to take all the sites in and have memorable experience. This is what is most important to us. We have and do a few tournaments each year and can cater to fisherman who might be interested in tournament fishing. Well lets get on with the fishing report for this past week.
WEATHER: Again about the same as last week. I don’t know to say it any better than this its just plain hot. Highs ladder 90,s with lows in the lower 80,s and the humidity is intense. I guess it is to be expected this time of year in Cabo but this is the hottest summer I have felt since I have been in Cabo. Most days are pretty clear with partial clouds and if you look toward the sierras you will see it is cloudy and looks like it has been raining. Well we have a little more than 2 more months of the really hot weather so were about half way through till October and we might get some relieve after the 15th .
WATER: Closer to shore is a bit cooler than offshore and according to Tembreak. Still the water is in the mid 80,s on pacific side and higher on the Sea of Cortez side. Go to Tempbreak.com to check out map. [url "http://www.tempbreak.com/index.php?&cwregion=cb"]http://www.tempbreak.com/index.php?&cwregion=cb[/url]
TUNA: The Tuna fishing has been about the same the last few days, as we have been landing some very small Tuna, like football size, and they seem to be hitting cedar plugs and king busters. All the Tuna have been caught in the horseshoe area. I don’t know when Mexico is going to wake up and start protecting the sportfishing and all the tourist dollars that come into the area because of fishing. It seems no one is thinking of the long term affects this will have on the tourist and sportfishing industry. Not only that the sportfishing and tourist industry employee many, many families here in Los Cabos
BILLFISH: Well all the sudden the fishing really took a dive this past week and I really don’t know what happen. We were on a roll and all the sudden fishing kinda stopped. On the Bob Marlin we did land one Sailfish and one Marlin all week not much to brag about but that’s fishing.
DORADO: The Dorado fishing has been kinda weird with lots of very small Dorado being caught with some even like 2 to 3lbs with a few to 10 to 12lbs and most are being caught on lures and cut bait. Please if you are catching baby Dorado throw them back for another day. You will be surprised how fast they will grow over a year. If they aren’t over 10 pounds you might think about throwing them back.
INSHORE: The fishing in general has been very slow so the inshore bite has not been to hot either. Some very small Dorado and a few Roosters is about it. The Roosters have been caught from Grey Rock to Chileno Bay and have been landed by using live bait slow trolled. We have a real full moon coming up next week and we are hoping for a turn around in fishing.
WAHOO: We did get one Wahoo this week at the San Jamie Banks and it tipped the scales at 40lbs. We landed the fish while we were out looking for Tuna.
From The Admirals Kitchen
[center]Grilled Dorado with hot sauce beurre blanc sound good?[/center]
Use this reicpe and make it tonight! Hot sauce is a natural condiment for fried chicken and even oysters, but chef Hugh Acheson will deepen your appreciation of it. A good hot sauce, he says, “adds acid and nuance to things – that vinegary pucker thing I like.” At his Atlanta restaurant, Empire State South, his crew even makes a house hot sauce, fermenting barrels of pulverized peppers and salt and later topping off the pungent brew with some cider vinegar. You’ll find plenty of use for the bottled kind, too, especially in rich, creamy sauces or dishes that already need a punch of acid. An ingenious example: Acheson’s tweak to the Frenchiest of fish sauces, beurre blanc, from his cookbook, A New Turn in the South (R387, kalahari.com).
Ingredients
1 cucumber, seeds removed, thinly sliced
3 tbsp olive oil, divided
2 tbsp freshly squeezed lemon juice, divided
1 tbsp flat-leaf parsley, minced
3/4 tsp Maldon sea salt (or other flaky sea salt), divided
1 shallot, minced
1/2 cup cider vinegar
2 tbsp spicy sauce
115g cold unsalted butter, cubed
4 dorado fillets (120g each)
Freshly cracked pepper to taste
4 lemon wedges
Do this now
1 In a large mixing bowl, toss the cucumber with 1 tbsp olive oil, 1 tbsp lemon juice, the parsley, and 1/4 tsp salt. Set aside.
2 In a small saucepan, heat the shallot, vinegar, and remaining 1 tbsp lemon juice on medium until reduced to 2 tbsp. Add the hot sauce, lower the heat to a bare simmer and begin whisking in the cold butter; incorporate each cube completely before adding the next one. Season the mixture with a pinch of salt and keep it warm in a water bath (a metal bowl set above a pan of simmering water).
3 Set the oven rack so it’s 15cm from the grill. Heat the grill and brush a sheet pan with 1 tbsp olive oil. Season the fish with the pepper and remaining sea salt; drizzle the remaining 1 tbsp olive oil over the fish. Place the fillets on the pan and grill until they’re just opaque at the centre, 3 to 5 minutes each side.
4 Arrange the cucumber on a platter and place the fish on top. Drizzle with the beurre blanc and serve with lemon wedges.
Makes 4 servings
[center]SportFishing Conservation[/center]
A recently released economic study commissioned by The Billfish Foundation (TBF) on the billion dollar-plus annual impact sport fishing brings to Mexico's greater Cabo San Lucas/Los Cabos region, has caught the keen attention and responsive actions of two of Mexico's senators.
[img]file:///C:\DOCUME~1\CABO\LOCALS~1\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image002.gif[/img]
Citing TBF's research on the value of sport fishing to the economy of Baja California Sur and all of Mexico, Senators Luis Coppola Joffroy and Humberto Andrade Quezada have placed upon the floor of the Mexican Senate an ambitious effort to utilize sport fishing as an economic development tool for all of coastal Mexico.
[img]file:///C:\DOCUME~1\CABO\LOCALS~1\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image002.gif[/img]
Of immediate importance is a proposal to amend Mexico's national fisheries law to specifically state that marlins, sailfish, swordfish, rooster fish and dorado are to be used exclusively for sport fishing and that these species may not be sold, even if taken as by-catch by commercial fisheries.
[img]file:///C:\DOCUME~1\CABO\LOCALS~1\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image002.gif[/img]
Recent attempts by Mexico's fisheries agency, CONAPESCA, to establish liberal by-catch allowances for billfish, dorado and other species have drawn sharp criticism from sportfishing and conservation organizations.
[img]file:///C:\DOCUME~1\CABO\LOCALS~1\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image002.gif[/img]
"Once passed into law this clarifying language should prevent bureaucrats in CONAPESCA from ever again tampering with Mexico's historically profound sportfishing conservation regime," said Dr. Russell Nelson, TBF's chief scientist.
[img]file:///C:\DOCUME~1\CABO\LOCALS~1\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image002.gif[/img]
The action was based off the comprehensive 126-page research study conducted in 2007 and 2008 to estimate the dollars, jobs and tax revenues created by anglers focusing on Baja Sur's "sport fishing triangle" showing the enormous effect sport fishing tourism brings to the area. The region includes the Los Cabos communities of East Cape, San Jose del Cabo, and Cabo San Lucas, all once small fishing locales.
[img]file:///C:\DOCUME~1\CABO\LOCALS~1\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image002.gif[/img]
In recent years the region has become a major North American tourist destination driven heavily by its world-class striped marlin fishery. In turn sport fishing has also become a major provider of jobs - over 24,000 - and has brought a huge revenue stream of dollars into Mexico's economy.
[img]file:///C:\DOCUME~1\CABO\LOCALS~1\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image002.gif[/img]
Nelson, along with Guillermo Alvarez, TBF's Mexican conservation director said information was needed to communicate the importance of the Los Cabos fisheries to its local, state and national leaders.
[img]file:///C:\DOCUME~1\CABO\LOCALS~1\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image002.gif[/img]
Headquartered in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., The Billfish Foundation works with governments worldwide advancing the conservation of billfish and associated species to improve the health of oceans and regional economies. It has been assisting in the Baja Sur region since 2002.
[img]file:///C:\DOCUME~1\CABO\LOCALS~1\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image002.gif[/img]
Besides Mexico's state and federal government officials, TBF President Ellen Peel said the report was distributed to industry and academic interests in Mexico as well. The results will also be presented before the national Chamber of Commerce in Mexico City in January.
[img]file:///C:\DOCUME~1\CABO\LOCALS~1\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image002.gif[/img]
The study showed in 2007, 354,013 people, most all of them international visitors, fished in Los Cabos. While there they spent an estimated $633.6 million dollars for lodging, charter boats, food, transportation, tackle, fuel, and more. These expenditures started a series of cascading economic effects in the local economy, creating: 24,426 jobs, $245.5 U.S. million in local and federal tax revenues, and $1.125 U.S. billion in total economic activity.
[img]file:///C:\DOCUME~1\CABO\LOCALS~1\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image002.gif[/img]
Additional benefits accrued were Los Cabos angler expenditures generating an added $145 U.S. million to Mexico's Gross Domestic Product; 10,469 additional jobs created elsewhere in Mexico and $75 U.S. million in taxes added to the federal coffers.
[img]file:///C:\DOCUME~1\CABO\LOCALS~1\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image002.gif[/img]
But the area has long attracted the interests of Mexico's "fishing mafia," and illegal foreign commercial long-liners and netters in the Sea of Cortez (Gulf of California) waters and Pacific Ocean coasts.
[img]file:///C:\DOCUME~1\CABO\LOCALS~1\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image002.gif[/img]
Nelson said 88 percent of international anglers who have fished in Cabo said they would be less likely to return if they knew the commercial harvest of billfish increased.
[img]file:///C:\DOCUME~1\CABO\LOCALS~1\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image002.gif[/img]
The report revealed the most targeted species of interest for sport fishermen were dorado (also known as dolphinfish and mahi-mahi) registering nearly 95% with a success catch rate of over 81%. Marlin were second at nearly 90% with a success rate of over 82% and tuna were the third most popular at over 86% with a 75% success rate among the 10 species listed.
[img]file:///C:\DOCUME~1\CABO\LOCALS~1\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image002.gif[/img]
Juvenile dorado and tuna are also part of the food chain for the migrating billfish.
[img]file:///C:\DOCUME~1\CABO\LOCALS~1\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image002.gif[/img]
The dorado, a species that under Mexican fisheries law is supposed to be strictly relegated for sport fishing, has for years attracted the interests of illegal commercial fishing. A highly controversial new regulation - NOM-029 - allows for the "incidental" harvest of billfish, dorado and other species within Mexico's 24 year-old conservation zones.
[img]file:///C:\DOCUME~1\CABO\LOCALS~1\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image002.gif[/img]
Recent seizures of illegal dorado catches in double digit tonnage have also produced headlines in Mexican newspapers and attention to its commercial fishing mafia.
[img]file:///C:\DOCUME~1\CABO\LOCALS~1\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image002.gif[/img]
Multiple tons of the illegal dorado catches, intentionally mis labeled, have crossed into the United States by semi-tractor trailer trucks through Arizona (Nogales) and California (Tijuana.)
[img]file:///C:\DOCUME~1\CABO\LOCALS~1\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image002.gif[/img]
"This destructively affects fishing resources and the millions in tourist dollars that also support sport fishing such as catch-and-release for striped marlin in the region," said Nelson.
[img]file:///C:\DOCUME~1\CABO\LOCALS~1\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image002.gif[/img]
"This has been an up-and-down year for TBF in Mexico," said Ms. Peel," but we have ended 2008 with a huge success. Dr. Nelson's work with our economic study and Alvarez's commitment to unyielding advocacy before the Mexican government has turned the tide."
[img]file:///C:\DOCUME~1\CABO\LOCALS~1\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image002.gif[/img]
"Senators Coppola and Andrade should be hailed as true leaders in Mexico as they both clearly see that promoting sustainable development based on carefully managed sport fishing tourism is an economic and ecological win - win situation for that nation," emphasized Peel. "These two men are fighting for the region's life blood that is within the marine waters of the region - to destroy this resource would be economic suicide to thousands of jobs in Mexico."
BEWARE: Please beware of the guys in the street selling boat charters. If you wait till the day you are fishing and go to the dock where your boat is many times people will mislead you to another boat or dock trying to put you on a boat that was not meant for you. You need to have a person guide you to your boat, who is from a reputable charter company. This way there is no confusion or misleading. Please remember when renting Sport fishing boats in Cabo that you rent your boat from reputable and established business. Walk into a fishing fleet office and ask questions about what you are getting and what are the costs? You dont want to rent boats from vendors in the streets and you do not want to book through shady websites offering you the world. Check through travel forums about reputable fishing fleets to deal with. Look for testimonials about the fleet your booking your charter with. Ask about what will the boat be supplying? Will it include beverages or lunches? How much does it cost to fillet your catch? Check to see if charter boat is insured? Ask about getting your catch smoked? Check cost of fishing license. These are just a few things to consider when booking your charter boat. We will be talking more about this in next weeks fishing report. Until next time good fishing and we hope to see you in Cabo soon. Come by the office here in Cabo and get all the latest up to date fishing report. [url "http://www.jcsportfishing.com"]http://www.jcsportfishing.com[/url] http://youtu.be/tSXN6pifQyQ
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