{"id":114645,"date":"2025-08-27T21:15:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T21:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/114645\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T21:15:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T21:15:07","slug":"california-fish-and-game-commission-revokes-fortuna-mans-commercial-fishing-license-for-crab-trap-violations-lost-coast-outpost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/114645\/","title":{"rendered":"California Fish and Game Commission Revokes Fortuna Man’s Commercial Fishing License for Crab Trap Violations | Lost Coast Outpost"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Press release from the California Department of Fish and Wildlife:<\/p>\n

The California Fish and Game Commission has revoked the commercial fishing licenses and permits of two fishermen after extensive histories of violations in the lobster and Dungeness crab fisheries.<\/p>\n

At its June 11-12, 2025, meeting, the Commission \u2013 acting on California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) recommendations \u2013 revoked the commercial fishing license and lobster operator permit of Christopher James Miller, 68, of Santa Barbara, and the commercial fishing license and Dungeness crab permit of Ronald Ghera, 45, of Fortuna.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Miller\u2019s violations, spanning a decade, included abandoning 156 lobster traps around Santa Barbara and the Northern Channel Islands, leaving traps in the water after the season closure, failing to retrieve baited traps and filing inaccurate catch records.<\/p>\n

Ghera\u2019s record included abandoning 94 crab traps after the 2023 season and 74 after the 2024 season, failing to service traps within the required 96 hours, failing to submit mandatory reports, and fishing with untagged traps and improperly marked buoys.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe majority of people who fish commercially are law-abiding and care about our fisheries,\u201d said Nathaniel Arnold, Chief of the CDFW Law Enforcement Division. \u201cThere are a few individuals, however, who choose to partake in commercial poaching. These individuals will eventually be caught and will likely lose the privilege to commercially fish in this state through either criminal or administrative actions.\u201d<\/p>\n

CDFW emphasizes that compliance with commercial fishing regulations \u2013 particularly removing traps at the end of each season\u2014is essential. Those who abandon traps not only endanger marine mammals and other wildlife that can become trapped or entangled in derelict gear, but they can also cause shortened fishing seasons for law-abiding fishers who depend on those opportunities for their livelihood.<\/p>\n

Whether it\u2019s hunting, recreational fishing, or commercial fishing, the privilege to harvest California\u2019s fish and wildlife requires a high degree of mutual trust between the public and law enforcement. CDFW\u2019s wildlife officers are entrusted with protecting the state\u2019s marine fish and wildlife species by patrolling and enforcing the law along California\u2019s 840-mile coastline, and together with the California Fish and Game Commission, will continue to review violations of commercial fishing cases and take decisive administrative action to prevent bad actors from further harming California\u2019s ocean environment.<\/p>\n

See something serious? Report it and help protect California\u2019s fish and wildlife. You can:<\/p>\n

Call CalTIP at (888) 334-2258 \u2013 available 24\/7Text \u201cCALTIP\u201d + your message to 847411 (tip411).Download the CalTIP app from Apple\u2019s App Store or Google Play to send tips anonymously.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" ### Press release from the California Department of Fish and Wildlife: The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":114646,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[192,79],"class_list":{"0":"post-114645","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-environment","9":"tag-science"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114645\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}