[sportsman625]

Just read an article by Al Ristori about a disgraceful dumping of stripers off the N.C. coast. The commercial trawlers going thru their fish to maxinize the 100 fish quota and killing and dumping the overage. These fish are the stock that winter off shore and are the spawners for the coming spring. Until this info get out to the general public it is not going the help the fisherman. Lou

 

[mattyblazer]

more or less this goes on everywhere

What do you think they do with the overage here? same diffrence.

 

[624713]

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Until this info get out to the general public it is not going the help the fisherman


Unfortunately the info is not enough. Until somebody makes some pictures or film the bastards doing that the authorities will be sitting on their hands.

 

[mattyblazer]

I dont think its anything we can fix

I think that when they reach there limit they have to throw the extra fish back, and unfortunately they are usually dead.

Sucks

 

[Hunt n' Fish]

I don't think it's even illegal

All those fish they hauled in to pick through were dead either way. Even if they took the first ones they grabbed. It's a disgusting waste of the resource, that should be figured into their annual quota. Make them keep and let them sell every thing they kill and only allow them to catch a specific weight of fish for the entire season.

Last year Maryland commercial fisherman allegedly did the same thing, and grossly surpassed their annual quota, which they are supposed to be paying back this season. Maybe that will happen here as well.

 

[SEAWOLF]

DOUGHBOY

Your idea to let them keep and sell all they kill,until they reach a specific weight limit is the perfect solution!
In fact,it makes too much sense,...they would never go for it!!!

SEAWOLF

 

[186logic]

As much as this waste burns me up. I still can't believe that Tuna guys drown dolphins in nets and discard the carcasses. To suffocate (one of the most painful forms of death) highly intellegent mammals like that is pure evil and almost makes me think about going greenpeace.