The more nets that are found will better the cause for a net ban and hopefully save some more fish. Those nets looked like they had a no vacancy sign on them though. I can't believe some one hasn't been busted by now............Gary
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Yeah, that's why everything about these nets is "fishy". If someone actually set them and worked them to make money, they would have been caught! It looks like these nets were just set and abandoned to catch fish until the right time for "someone" to find them for a media event. CCA, MSSA, DNR, ??
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Mikie - Not to be smart but MSSA has trouble getting volunteers to man the booths at flea markets - some how doubt they could find the $$$$ for nets plus labor to put them out there.
Same for CCA - plus would not be worth the risk , media would have a field day - IMHO. Heard a rumor there will be arrests made - hope it is true that DNR found the poachers. My take on it - the poachers were forced to abandon the illegal nets when all the DNR officers were on the water in winter. When the gill net season opened last few days of February - it was way too windy for the poachers to try to get them while blending in with legal netters. Gibby later asked for amnesty period for illegal netters but was turned down. Kinda a last ditch effort. Guess at that point - the poachers wrote the nets off - knowing DNR and others were watching. Wish DNR would offer a reward for net locations - no questions asked - to get these things out of the water. |
Ahhhhhhh so much closer to a net ban:) I hope it happens while there is still a few fish left...........Gary
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Good chance we'll never know the truth. I'm in for another total shutdown, moratorium - right now, for everybody!! Including C&R. Let's let the fish recover from everything and everybody. You get caught catching stripers - you forfeit your boat and all of your equipment and maybe get some jail time. You all in?
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You presume to much of what Gibby Dean was thinking. Even to the point of addressing him by his first name. Is that to give the impression you know him? I'm betting he doesn't know you. Don't presume DNR was on the water much this winter, just not true. |
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Mikie - I'll bite.
If another moratorium had to be put on Rockfish - I'd be 100% in favor of taking a poachers boat. IMHO - That is how it should be right now , not a small fine. One reason we see repeat offenders who steal from all of us. They have little to fear. Hell , most times the fines are not even 5% of what was taken. That is cheaper then sales tax. Reds - Guess we will have to wait until an arrest (s) is made to know who set the nets. I just can not see some one ( CCA / MSSA ) putting out thousands of dollars like that - on hope it is found. Illegal nets have been found in most past years - nothing new about it. |
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The surveys are done and on record. Now with the change in security they might not be releasing data to the public on nuclear facilities. I just happened to do my senior thesis on topics similar to this using blue crabs as a model species. My class mate cribbed a lot of my literature research since he was looking at striped bass. |
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I might have missed one this should be close for the discussion Main , Connecticut, New Hampshire, New Jersey & South Carolina Have no commercial harvest Of rock Fish. Massachusetts Has a Hook& Line fishery ONLY Rhode Island has a Fish trap and hook & line Fishery Delaware has a Hook & line & a Gillnet Fishery Virginia has a Hook & line & a Gillnet Fishery New York has Hook & Line Pound Nets Fish traps Gillnets Maryland has Hook & Line Pound Nets Gill Nets Haul seines North Carolina has everything Potomac River Hook & Line Pound Nets Gill Nets. 5 states Under the striped bass managment of the ASMFS allow gill netting and one more for the Potomac fishery 7 States don’t allow Gillnets. |
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