OPPS...Look Out Your Greed Is Showing

[Mikie]

Originally Posted by 5th Tuition

Two more nets found again today. This can not help your cause! This has to stop! Eventually, whether Griffith likes the "white paper" or not, he will have to do something.
Stop the poaching! Clean up your house! You are putting yourselves out of work! Don't be mad with me, police your own!
5th (Marty)

Don't be yelling at me - I don't own a net, if I knew who was setting them I'd be collecting the reward. On the other side of the coin, I'm not running around screaming to redistribute the allocation more toward the group who is ALREADY harvesting the majority of the fish.

[5th Tuition]

Originally Posted by Mikie

Don't be yelling at me - I don't own a net, if I knew who was setting them I'd be collecting the reward. On the other side of the coin, I'm not running around screaming to redistribute the allocation more toward the group who is ALREADY harvesting the majority of the fish.

Mikie;

I've dropped my MSSA membership and it is not I who is asking for a reallocation of the resourse.

I have not called for a ban on all netting.

I have not called for rockfish to have gamefish status.

I am guilty of two things; I am a rec angler, and I am disgusted with the poaching of the bays resourses. If you can't communicate with me, best of luck with those calling for one, or all of the above.
Sorry I can't get whatever it is that you are "selling".
Best of luck in your endevors.
5th (Marty)

[Mikie]

Originally Posted by 5th Tuition

Mikie;

I've dropped my MSSA membership and it is not I who is asking for a reallocation of the resourse.

I have not called for a ban on all netting.

I have not called for rockfish to have gamefish status.

I am guilty of two things; I am a rec angler, and I am disgusted with the poaching of the bays resourses. If you can't communicate with me, best of luck with those calling for one, or all of the above.
Sorry I can't get whatever it is that you are "selling".
Best of luck in your endevors.
5th (Marty)

I'm not "selling" anything other then common sense when approaching a problem instead of mass hysteria and trying to cash in on the situation.
I am just as disgusted as anyone else about the ILLEGAL nets. From your point of view, EVERYONE who holds a commercial license should know who's responsible and should turn them in. Guess what - it doesn't work that way. Do you know all of the recs who may break the law in a given year? The only good part of this whole mess is that ALL of these fish have been deducted from the commercial quota, therefore, there hasn't been a net loss of fish. They would have been caught legally if the season had run it's normal length. If the DNR does it's job effectively, maybe they can put these guys out of business.

[reds]

The key word is "coincidence" with the white paper.

Was all this planned by someone wanting more allocation for their user group?

$10,000 reward??? DNR doesn't know who, and probably will never know.

25000 lbs of fish is a cheap way to lose a user group.

[MdCrappie]

Originally Posted by 5th Tuition

Your analogy with drunk driving may not be a good one to pursue. Here's why. I'm sure there was a time where drinking and driving was if not legal, it was considered not so major an offense. I can remember stories of the police either escorting the drunk home, or letting him "sleep it off" and be on his way when sober. Drunk driving was treated with a "wink of the eye". Many watermen have had this curtesy extended to them throughout the years.
Eventually, drunk driving was taken seriously and it was BANNED. Now, if you are caught driving, even just "under the influance", you will lose your license after only a few convictions.
It's a shame your leadership didn't call for the loss of the waterman's license years ago when this practice was being committed. NOW, Larry Simm's is calling for the loss of license for those convicted of this LATEST crime. TOO LATE to influence public opinion. The damage has been done!

So you see, there was a progression from the "wink,wink" of drunk driving to the public demand of banning drunk driving. We may be seeing a progression from the "wink, wink" of poaching, to a ban on all netting.
The continued poaching of natural resourses by a few, has tarnished the many. The time to call for more stringent measures on the habitual offenders was long ago, not now.

5th (Marty)

Seems to me to be a Perfect analogy, but you are letting out a step

Overlooked Poaching, Crackdown on Poaching, Make all Nets Illegal

Overlooked DUI, Crackdown on DUI, Make all Driving Illegal

[reds]

Looks like MSSA changed Secretary Griffin's letter to suit themselves.
If they will change letters, what else will they do???

http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/spor...ssa_style.html

Bwahahahahaha.

Git um Candy.

[reeltor]

http://www.baltimoresun.com/sports/o...0,372447.story

Below is an excerpt from Candus responding to questions regarding the poaching...

"I'm generally not a conspiracy thinker but how do we know that someone within Maryland Saltwater Sportfishermen's Association or Coastal Conservation Association ranks (not sanctioned of course) didn't do the dirty deed to get total sport fish status?

Larry Simns, president of the Maryland Watermen's Association, isn't buying that theory, and his membership would have a lot to lose if those two recreational angling groups were successful in getting the Maryland General Assembly to put the striped bass off limits to commercial fishing. Simns suspects this poaching was the work of two boats being operated by "bad apples," who moved their operation from Rock Hall after intense pressure last year from NRP."


Sounds like it should be easy to catch the perps. Look for two MSSA or CCA members who "coincidentally" moved their boats from Rock Hall after LAST years heist of fish.

[Hockleyneck]

Originally Posted by reeltor

http://www.baltimoresun.com/sports/o...0,372447.story

Below is an excerpt from Candus responding to questions regarding the poaching...

"I'm generally not a conspiracy thinker but how do we know that someone within Maryland Saltwater Sportfishermen's Association or Coastal Conservation Association ranks (not sanctioned of course) didn't do the dirty deed to get total sport fish status?

Larry Simns, president of the Maryland Watermen's Association, isn't buying that theory, and his membership would have a lot to lose if those two recreational angling groups were successful in getting the Maryland General Assembly to put the striped bass off limits to commercial fishing. Simns suspects this poaching was the work of two boats being operated by "bad apples," who moved their operation from Rock Hall after intense pressure last year from NRP."


Sounds like it should be easy to catch the perps. Look for two MSSA or CCA members who "coincidentally" moved their boats from Rock Hall after LAST years heist of fish.

How about all the nets last year, seems like the recreation guys sure are setting allot of nets.

[reds]

Originally Posted by reeltor

http://www.baltimoresun.com/sports/o...0,372447.story

Below is an excerpt from Candus responding to questions regarding the poaching...

"I'm generally not a conspiracy thinker but how do we know that someone within Maryland Saltwater Sportfishermen's Association or Coastal Conservation Association ranks (not sanctioned of course) didn't do the dirty deed to get total sport fish status?

Larry Simns, president of the Maryland Watermen's Association, isn't buying that theory, and his membership would have a lot to lose if those two recreational angling groups were successful in getting the Maryland General Assembly to put the striped bass off limits to commercial fishing. Simns suspects this poaching was the work of two boats being operated by "bad apples," who moved their operation from Rock Hall after intense pressure last year from NRP."


Sounds like it should be easy to catch the perps. Look for two MSSA or CCA members who "coincidentally" moved their boats from Rock Hall after LAST years heist of fish.

I just checked. Mr Simn's name is not on my license, therefore he doesn't speak for me and a lot of other license holders.... He's entitled to his opinion, I'm entitled to mine....... Hold you breath until they charge the two of whom he speakes.

MSSA has twisted the response to their "White Paper, of a high official in Maryland State government. What else are they capable of????

[Bug Guy]

Originally Posted by Mikie

I'm not "selling" anything other then common sense when approaching a problem instead of mass hysteria and trying to cash in on the situation....

Sorry, I don't mean to be disrespectful, but that's sort of funny to me considering what happened last year. Not just you, but all the responses that have the same sentiment. I don't know your perspective or your thoughts on PSCR, and I dont' really care - but I'll make the general statement that commercial watermen and some (maybe most) charter boat captains set up a system for fisheries management that does just that - NOT use a common sense approach & DOES feed into the hysteria to cash in. I feel for the honest ones, but in reality, they all created this situation for themselves. However, I can tell you this - I don't like the snowballing of the situation and the hysteria behind it because it could just as easily come back to bite the rec fisherman in the ass as well.

My opinion, the entire thing is a giant freak'n joke and in the end, no one will win.