Redondo beach pier development license#

Many people feared it was injured and almost all hoped it would make its way back into the open ocean. It occasionally would surface and attract crowds and eventually four different television stations filmed it. For some reason a young, four-foot-long swordfish ventured into the harbor in 1992 and stayed for nearly a week. But then I heard the story of the swordfish (Xiphias gladius). And, the deep-water triggerfish and bullet mackerel that were caught are pretty intriguing. I thought the most unusual visitors were a school of deep-sea skipjack tuna that made an unfortunate mistake and turned into the harbor one day (some sources say they were black skipjack-Euthynnus lineatus).

Part of what made it special were some of the unusual species of fish that showed up in the harbor and sometimes at the pier. As a matter of fact, more fish were probably caught per angler than at the larger Redondo Beach Municipal Pier located just a short distance to the south.

Redondo beach pier development license#

It was a private pier that required a license but was often crowded simply because it yielded a lot of fish. Its closure did not mean the end of a Sportfishing fleet (it simply moved to an inner harbor berth) but it did spell the end, hopefully the temporary end, to a pier that was both unique and special. The small (250-foot-long) Redondo Sportfishing Pier that served as the center for Redondo’s Sportfishing fleet since being built in 1969, was declared unsafe and closed in 2017. Currently closed but the city says it plans to construct a new pier (although no plans have been finalized or dates given).