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Are Chinese bottom trawlers respecting Monterey territory?

• pvaldes 8y ago
  Very unprobable, but there is some hope First of all the rocky botom can offer some kind of protection against trawls. And second, is not clear if this octopus are edible. I can't identify the species with this video. Maybe Graneledone but I'm not sure. The much smaller squat lobster (Munida? Munidopsis?) in the video can be deceptive but the octopus look very small to me. We could be talking about a small animal of only 10cm of mantle length (body minus tentacles). Probably not valuable enough to risk the fishing material and spending fuel on it.
• jmalicki 8y ago
  It seems perfect compliance is a ways off, but the USCG spends a lot of effort enforcing EEZs and marine sanctuaries with a lot of results https://static1.squarespace.com/static/56c65ea3f2b77e3a78d3441e/t/5a300df8e4966b2062f67e44/1513098747576/tab-m-uscg-enforcement.pdf https://static1.squarespace.com/static/56c65ea3f2b77e3a78d34...
  • pinko 8y ago
    Great, relevant link -- thanks!