{"id":1698,"date":"2009-10-01T11:56:03","date_gmt":"2009-10-01T18:56:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/?p=1698"},"modified":"2009-10-01T11:57:41","modified_gmt":"2009-10-01T18:57:41","slug":"california-spiny-lobster-season-is-almost-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/?p=1698","title":{"rendered":"California Spiny Lobster Season Is Almost Here!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The air has that &#8220;it&#8217;s getting Winter time&#8221; feel and everyone knows what that means!<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s almost lobster season!<\/p>\n<p>This Saturday morning at midnight, every Tom, Dick and Harry with a SCUBA tank or hoop net will be in the water looking for what is left of the California Spiny lobster.<\/p>\n<p>The waiting for midnight, the two dives in crowded boat-to-boat waters, the beer and party on the way back, the stop at the Monster Lobster contest at Dive N Surf &#8211; more of a tradition than anything else, I will be among them.<\/p>\n<p>Remember, you need a valid California fishing license, ocean enhancement stamp and a lobster report card to hunt for lobsters.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_new\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dfg.ca.gov\/licensing\/ols\/intro.html\">California Fishing Licences can be bought online here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I am concerned about this season, however.<\/p>\n<p>For the last several months I have been actively looking for lobsters on my almost weekly day time dives; lobsters usually hide in between rocks or inside reefs during the day, and I can usually spot them preseason.<\/p>\n<p>Not this year.<\/p>\n<p>Word has it, the marine preserves and remote Channel Islands are still teaming with spiny lobsters, but I haven&#8217;t spotted more than a few along Palos Verdes.<\/p>\n<p>Unless these creatures are hidding well, this season is going to be really, really tough.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s liberate as many legal lobsters as we can this season!<\/p>\n<p>Best of luck to all the lobster hunters!<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"400\" height=\"323\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Yyd2aNW-BR8&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Yyd2aNW-BR8&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"400\" height=\"323\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>To view this video on YouTube.com, <a target=\"_new\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Yyd2aNW-BR8\">click here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The air has that &#8220;it&#8217;s getting Winter time&#8221; feel and everyone knows what that means! It&#8217;s almost lobster season! This Saturday morning at midnight, every Tom, Dick and Harry with a SCUBA tank or hoop net will be in the water looking for what is left of the California Spiny lobster. The waiting for midnight, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,10,27,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1698"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1698\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}