STAFF AND WIRE REPORTS California regulators sharply restricted fishing off more than 20 percent of the state’s coastline from the San Francisco Peninsula to Mendocino County and parts of Sonoma County, turning back pleas Wednesday to allow more abalone diving and delay the new measures due to budgetary concerns.

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Fishing banned off parts of Sonoma, Mendocino coasts (The Santa Rosa Press Democrat)

It’s much easier, and more fun, to write this column when so many are catching a variety of fish up and down the Jersey coast and in Delaware Bay. For 32 years I have produced columns for different news outlets.

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Fishing good, but local laws aren’t helping (Gloucester County Times)