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Topic subjectLicense
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14178, License
Posted by bass kid, Sun Oct-01-06 09:48 AM
Does anyone know where i can get a lobster license and how much it is, i live down in socal(san diego area).
Thanks
14179, RE: License
Posted by swimbait, Sun Oct-01-06 10:01 AM
To hoop net or dive for lobster, all you need is a fishing license :) I assume that's what you are wanting to do. The commercial guys who set traps have to get a commercial license.
14180, RE: License
Posted by bass kid, Sun Oct-01-06 02:03 PM
thas sweet, all i need is a fishn license, that works,
thank you
14181, RE: License
Posted by Terry G, Sun Oct-01-06 04:29 PM
Don't forget to familiarize yourself with DFG regulations when going for lobster. Here are most of the important ones:

Section 700(Title 14) License Provisions: Anyone 16 years and older must have a fishing license to take any kind of fish,mollusk,invertebrate,amphibian or crustacean in California, except for persons angling from a public pier.
29.90(a) Open season: From the Saturday preceding the first Wednesday in October through the first Wednesday after the 15th of March
29.90(b) Limit: Seven
29.90(c) Minimum size: Three and one-fourth inches measured in a straight line on the mid-line of the back from the rear edge of the eye socket to the rear edge of the body shell. Any lobster may be brought to the surface of the water for the purpose of measuring, but no undersize lobster may be brought aboard any boat, placed in any type of receiver, kept on the person or retained in any person's possession or under his direct control; all lobsters shall be measured immediately upon being brought to the surface of the water, and any undersize lobster shall be released immediately into the water.
29.80(b) Baited hoop nets may be used to take spiny lobsters and all species of crabs. Between Point Arguello, Santa Barbara County, and the United States-Mexico border, not more than five baited hoop nets may be fished by a person to take spiny lobster and crab, not to exceed a total of 10 baited hoop nets fished from any vessel.
29.05(c) Measuring Devices: Every person while taking invertebrates which have a size limit shall carry a device (aka: a lobster gauge) capable of accurately measuring the size of the species taken.

Terry G.
14182, RE: License
Posted by bass kid, Sun Oct-01-06 06:02 PM
thats for the rules, a friend of mine has some nets and i wanted to get some this year, is it 7 a person or 7 a boat?
14183, RE: License
Posted by Terry G, Mon Oct-02-06 06:41 AM
You may possess 7 per angler.

Good luck. Make sure you post pictures if you have any success.

14184, RE: License
Posted by bass kid, Mon Oct-02-06 04:21 PM
ok thanks, hopefuly ill be able to get out this weekend
14205, RE: License
Posted by crackodawn, Mon Oct-16-06 06:37 PM
Rule one 5 net per person 10 nets per boat

Rule two 7 lobsters per an angler.

rule 3 use big floats

rule 4 think outside the lobster box IE find yourself an out of the way rock dont hoop with everyone else.