SAN DIEGO – A San Diego man accused of poaching lobsters allegedly was caught with six of the creatures stuffed down his pants.

Thirty-three-year-old Binh Quang Chau, who has been cited four times for poaching, allegedly took the lobsters from the La Jolla State Marine Conservation Area.

Department of Fish and Game warden Daryl Simmons says wardens arrested Chau when they noticed “odd bulges” in his pants. All six of the newspaper-wrapped lobsters were still alive and were returned to the ocean.

Lobsters in the San Diego area do not have pincers.

The original article can be found here.

Old Marineland Beach Access

According to Max BottonTime’s post on Divevets, the Old Marineland (aka Long Point, Terranea Resort) “temporary Beach Access Trail … will be intermittently closed for construction purposes beginning Friday, October 10, 2008 through Wednesday, November 12, 2008.”

“During the temporary closure, escourted trail access will be provided to the public between sunrise and sunset.”

“Escorted” trail access?

Redondo Beach Pier

I’ve been trying to pull myself together and get over the shock and depression of catching a total of four bugs over seven lobster hunting trips – an over all horrid dive-to-bug ratio.

What better therapy than to take the day off and head down to the International Boardwalk for some seafood and beer?

Instructor Ed and I made that today’s mission.

Quality Seafood on the International Boardwalk at Redondo Pier is a good choice for an honest, fresh, no frills seafood meal.

They steam everything right in front of you, unlike some other places where they switch a dead for live crab in the back room.

Local fresh lobsters are now being sold; notice the sign above the lobster tank that reads, “Price increase due to bad weather and high demand.”

I asked our employee friend Bobby how the commercial lobster fishermen are doing.

“It’s a horrible season, they’re barely catching anything,” bobby said.

That is why lobster is now almost $30 a pound!

Green muscles and sea snails make a great appetizer before our dungeness crab is ready.

Some really hot looking young women were eating a few tables down and kept staring at me; they probably either thought I was someone famous, or maybe they just wanted me?

It looks like I’m taking a picture of Ed, but I’m actually checking the chicks out.

We finished up at Naja’s, drinking a few Murphy’s Stouts.

Where to dive this weekend?

I’ll know where when I get there.