You go a long time and you won't see a single fish. But in the heads of many canyons there was a lot of fishing gear, mostly gill nets. Some trawl nets, too. Some rock outcroppings had no evidence of gear. Not many, though.
Commercial fishermen get premium prices for live fish and the business is thriving.
But the practice is hitting hard at stocks of rockfish and other ocean species. But today, rockfish are in vogue. Commercial trawlers using cone-shaped nets far offshore scoop them up by the tons. But not anymore. We went to a spot recently and saw very few fish.