{"id":2909,"date":"2013-11-19T18:55:24","date_gmt":"2013-11-20T01:55:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/?p=2909"},"modified":"2013-11-19T18:56:24","modified_gmt":"2013-11-20T01:56:24","slug":"dfg-dives-to-bust-poacher-underwater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/?p=2909","title":{"rendered":"DFG Dives To Bust Poacher Underwater!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you <a href=\"http:\/\/divevets.com\" target=\"_blank\">Divevets<\/a> and Diver Wrinkles for bringing this to my attention.<\/p>\n<p>You think you&#8217;re safe from the watch of the Department of Fish and Game while underwater?<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a story of a man off of Catalina who got busted underwater&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\nFrom The California Department Of Fish And Wildlife News<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) officers cited a 46-year-old Ventura County man for using rubbing alcohol to force fish out of rocks and capturing them to sell.<\/p>\n<p>The diver was cited for two Fish and Game Code violations: use of chemical while collecting marine aquaria and unlawful take of marine aquaria at Catalina Island, which is prohibited by law.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2910\" alt=\"DFG busts poacher.\" src=\"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/wp-content\/dfg_busted998.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/wp-content\/dfg_busted998.jpg 400w, https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/wp-content\/dfg_busted998-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On the afternoon of Nov. 13, officers from the patrol boat Thresher observed a large recreational sailboat with commercial fishing license numbers painted on the stern anchored in Emerald Bay on the northeast coast of Catalina Island.<\/p>\n<p>Officers boarded the boat and found a man sport fishing. The angler told the officers that his partner was SCUBA diving.<\/p>\n<p>Officers entered the 62-degree water and observed a diver squirting a liquid (later determined to be rubbing alcohol) from a bottle into cracks of rocks.<\/p>\n<p>The liquid was forcing small fish, Blue Banded Goby (Lythrypnus dalli), into the open water where the man then caught them with a small aquarium fish net and immediately put them in a small plastic receptacle attached to his SCUBA gear.<\/p>\n<p>The warden used a mask and snorkel from just below the water\u2019s surface to watch the diver squirt the bottle twice.<\/p>\n<p>The warden then dove down, showed the diver his warden identification, and directed the diver to come to the surface.<\/p>\n<p>Before ascending, the diver left one of his squirt bottles on the rocks and attempted to drop a small, mesh bag containing another squirt bottle.<\/p>\n<p>A warden retrieved both squirt bottles and the mesh bag.<\/p>\n<p>The entire article can be found here:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"CDFW Officers Snag Diver off Catalina Island\" href=\"http:\/\/cdfgnews.wordpress.com\/2013\/11\/19\/cdfw-officers-snag-diver-off-catalina-island\/\" target=\"_blank\">CDFW Officers Snag Diver off Catalina Island<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you Divevets and Diver Wrinkles for bringing this to my attention. You think you&#8217;re safe from the watch of the Department of Fish and Game while underwater? Here&#8217;s a story of a man off of Catalina who got busted underwater&#8230; From The California Department Of Fish And Wildlife News California Department of Fish and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,24,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2909"}],"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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2909"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2914,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2909\/revisions\/2914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}