Was here yesterday a little bit hazy today it looks like the sun's coming out so it's a good thing seems to be quite a few people are here too on the pier and the beach.
@@getmorecontent. Not extinct but you might catch them on only a handful of days a year from that pier. The anchovies are there almost every day in the summer. In the late 2000s and early 2010's the sardines rebounded and they opened up the sardine fishery to the purse sieners again. They did a terrible job managing the commercial fishery and within 5 years or so the stocks had been decimated again. I remember days where I was in a literal ocean of sardines, then the commercial fleet came in over night and caught hundreds of tons of sardines. The next day I would go fishing and only be able to find a handful of them for bait. Since then the anchovies have pretty much taken over. Anchovies make good bait but they die quickly. Sardines are better bait and taste better. I fish the area pretty regularly and since 2011 I have only caught handful of sardines. I've heard of one day in Capitola in 2020 that a school of Sardines came in shore, but that is literally one day in 10 years or more. The ocean is interesting, you never know what you will see, but there is definitely certain trends.
I enjoyed watching the marine life off the pier in Santa Cruz.First time I saw a crab try to catch a fish!🦀
Nice footage. Might get out there tomorrow. Cheers
Was here yesterday a little bit hazy today it looks like the sun's coming out so it's a good thing seems to be quite a few people are here too on the pier and the beach.
Those are Anchovies. Unfortunately the pacific Sardine fishery has been decimated by repeated rounds of overfishing.
So are the sardines extinct now from Santa cruz?
@@getmorecontent. Not extinct but you might catch them on only a handful of days a year from that pier. The anchovies are there almost every day in the summer. In the late 2000s and early 2010's the sardines rebounded and they opened up the sardine fishery to the purse sieners again. They did a terrible job managing the commercial fishery and within 5 years or so the stocks had been decimated again. I remember days where I was in a literal ocean of sardines, then the commercial fleet came in over night and caught hundreds of tons of sardines. The next day I would go fishing and only be able to find a handful of them for bait. Since then the anchovies have pretty much taken over. Anchovies make good bait but they die quickly. Sardines are better bait and taste better. I fish the area pretty regularly and since 2011 I have only caught handful of sardines. I've heard of one day in Capitola in 2020 that a school of Sardines came in shore, but that is literally one day in 10 years or more. The ocean is interesting, you never know what you will see, but there is definitely certain trends.