Angling and Diving Records

Angling and diving records for several species in the state of California are from the California Channel Islands. [Outdoor California 58: 4 (25), 1997]. State law currently prohibits the take of giant (black) sea bass.

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October 13, 1883 [SBDP]: “There are enough fish in the Santa Barbara Channel alone to supply this whole state, if proper facilities for catching and marketing them were provided. The waters all up and down the coast literally swarm with the finest and best of fish… Someone in Santa Barbara should start a barracuda and pompano cannery. The so-called crawfish is abundant in this channel and is easily entrapped… ”