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IMO, its slippery road to try to pass a law to get lobstermen to not place pots close to shore... If you look at the flipside, this is just like the proposal to limit shore fishing around fishtraps. We all went ballistic when we heard that, and some of us even said that the fish trap Co's dont own the land or the water that they are on, so why should they have 100% access to it. In a few places that I and my friends fish at there is a huge pot problem and we deal with it by scouting durring the day and then we try to remember where they are.... Sadly, one of my fishing partners lost his biggist fish of the season to a lobster pot...
There could be a comprimise though- lobstermen could at least do trawls with multiple pots to reduce the amount of bouys, or something..
They are lobstering it for $$ and we are fishing for fun, so its a slippery area like Rockhound stated.
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