Well, "MikeTLive??"... Want to make the case FOR placing recreational or commercial Lobster or fish pots, within casting distance of prime Surfcaster territory... WHEN you have a whole ocean out there to clutter- up?? Want to tell me the NEED to place pots within 150 yards of shore ever? (esp. to the dissatisfaction of hundreds of surfcasters??). Ever hear of a reef??
Come on... I'm for "small Government" & not legislating everything!-- but this is an example of the need to do so about every small/ obvious thing! Seems IF an individual CAN seek his interests (even as small as some free runt Lobsters) at the expense of hundreds, he will! The "good of the majority" & "public resource" be damned!
I must be an idiot: it would never occur to me, to hog/ "own" a common/ public resource, for a few bucks more in my pocket! Unfortunately, we need laws to stop others without common- sense or shame from doing so
These "potters" are the equivalent of boat fishermen who only stop in areas where they see other boats stopped first-- forget about finding one's own!
I hear WH is getting bad too? That's an obvious place for this abuse to happen...