A new video to explain the mid water trawl issue
 

YouTube - Problems with Industrial Fishing for Atlantic herring

We need fishermen to show up on September 28 in Newport RI mid morning and help us get some real regulations to limit these boats. Any S_B members that come...I will by lunch.

Another informative video...great job. See you at the meeting.

Hello
Havent been on here in a while... was going to post some info about this as well. Have friends that were fishing off of Chatham this past week and saw piles and piles of 40-50lb bass dead floating around from the herring trawlers that have been in the area... very sad
Herring Alliance

Interesting video.

good video patrick. heard you on weei yesterday too.

:wall: :(:(:fury: that sucks


I heard you on weei yesterday and today also

tell them to TAKE PICTURES!

Keep hearing about the pair trawlers and dead stripers on multiple sites yet NOBODY FREAKING TAKES PICTURES?!

What your friends saw goes on every year down in that area.
All the bickering of commercial vs rec kill, those amounts combined are minute compared to what these boats kill (and dump over dead) every year !

Last year a few people took pictures. You could have scooped up all the 30- 40 + lb bass you wanted. Very sad. Blue dogs were just lazily eating them from the surface.

...wow, seems like an on-board observer is basically not observing everything.
just put there to make it sound as if the effort is being made to monitor.

Doesn't really surprise me. A lot of the observers are young kids not too far out of school, who are on a boat with 5-6 seasoned fisherman. If the pressure alone doesn't get to them, I'm sure that a captain or two has some "advice" for them. I'm sure that there are normal procedures on most boats that look legit that are actually not.

In my opinion, there should be 2 observers on every boat. That way, at least they feel like they aren't completely alone on the boat.

Yeah, I can just see the captain saying to that girl, stay over here in this little area and don't wander, its deadly for you to leave this little area where you can't see anything. You might "accidentaly" fall overboard and never be found.....
Nothin like goin through the motions......

great work, Patrick. Very informative.

Nice Job P

great job Patrick, I still haven't heard the WEEI spot yet, how long is it suppose to run?

Hey all thanks but as always it is a true team effort of recs commercials and enviros that are waging thi war...the big deal is this coming Tuesday....about 11 am in Newport at the big hotel right downtown...we neeed bodies...the draft regs are nothing but watered dow junk...will be running a call in campaign over the weekend....WEEI ad is running once on D&C in the am and one on the Big Show in the evening

NIIIIICE Work, Pat!!

thanks for your diligence and hours of dedication.

GREAT spot on 850!!! will try to make the Newport meeting.

where is it in NPT?? would the "big hotel" be The Marriot?
might be helpful to know for sure? kudos to your exposure!!
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I heard the spot on WEEI tonight just before 6:00 - which is just after the best part of the show - the Whiner Line. Great spot - thanks for bringing this issue to the public's attention.