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Many years ago I helped develop a program where the enviro cops out of Hingham would donate the fish they confiscate to a drug rehab and the rehab would give them a receipt with size and other info on it. This way, three months later if the perp came into court wiith a smart azz lawyer to beat the case and get his gear back with no fine, there was actual evidence of the catch. I once got a fish with a tag that was in the fish for 11 years once. Hudson river fish that was 40" when the perp sshot it with a spear gun. He also got caught with short lobsters. come to think of it, we didn;t get the lobsters but the fish was eaten. It was a bely tag almost completely encased in a large wound from years of growth and gunk.
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