HUNTINGTON BEACH : Law Would Protect Fish in City Lakes
You can catch it, but you can’t keep it.
That would be the lake-fishing rule under a city ordinance introduced last week. The law, which would become effective by early June, would require fishing enthusiasts to throw back anything they catch in lakes within the city.
The City Council unanimously approved the ordinance at its first reading, after the city staff urged passage. Staff representatives, in a memo, said that stocks of fish are declining in city lakes, which are no longer routinely restocked by the state. The staff said that the catch-and-throw-back law would also protect public health in case lakes ever became contaminated.
No one--fishing enthusiast or otherwise--protested the proposed new law. The change would not affect fishing off the city’s Municipal Pier. All legal-size fish caught there may still be kept.
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