Outdoor Notes : Boat Show to Display More Than 1,000 New Models

More than 1,000 new boats will be on display at the Southern California Boat Show, which will open its 10-day run today at the Los Angeles Convention Center.

Boats on display range from 4 to 52 feet, and represent 180 manufacturers. In addition, personnel at 360 booths will display new marine hardware products such as electronics, paints, wood products, marine engines and water ski gear.

The National Marine Manufacturers Assn. reported a 10-year high sales figure for 1984, $12.3 billion. Two big gainers in 1984 were outboard boats, sales of which jumped from 273,000 to 317,000, and inboard-outboards, which jumped from 79,000 to 108,000.

The L.A. show is 25% larger than last year’s, according to Jack Stanton of the sponsoring Southern California Marine Assn.

Show hours: weekdays, 2-10 p.m.; Saturdays, 11 a.m.-10 p.m.; Sundays, 11 a.m.-7 p.m.

The state Fish and Game Commission will consider a proposed ban on lead shot at the Tule Lake and Lower Klamath national wildlife refuges today at its Long Beach meeting. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposes that non-toxic steel shot be required at the two northeastern California refuges beginning with the 1985-86 waterfowl season.

If the commission agrees with the proposal, the federal agency may proceed with implementation of the regulation.

A 130-mile stretch of coast between Yankee Point in Monterey County and the Santa Maria River mouth in San Luis Obispo County has been closed to the use of some types of gill and trammel nets because of a threat to sea otters.

Department of Fish and Game biologists had estimated that about 80 sea otters a year were accidentally caught and drowned in nets in 1982-83.

The DFG said it hopes to live-trap about 100 pronghorn antelope near the Modoc-Lassen county line later this month and transplant most of them for release on the Tejon Ranch, near the Los Angeles-Kern County line. Others will be released in Adobe Valley in Mono County.

Briefly Don Iovino of Burbank won the $25,000 first prize at U.S. Bass’ recent $75,000 Roosevelt Lake Invitational pro bass tournament in Arizona. . . . The Yosemite Natural History Assn. will offer four six-day, 52-mile treks across the Sierra, beginning in early March. . . . The DFG reports that waterfowl hunters bagged .27 fewer birds per hunter than a year ago at state-operated hunting areas. . . . The California Boating and Waterways Commission has approved two grants totaling $180,000 for boat launch improvements at two Inyo County lakes, Sabrina and South. . . . David F. Riley was appointed assistant regional director of habitat resources for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s western region. . . . Utah’s Department of Natural Resources says its elk population has grown from a total of a few hundred animals in the Uinta Mountains at the turn of the century to more than 25,000 today.