If you're a lobsterman, you are legally allowed to shoot someone if they poach your lobsters (I think). If you're a fisherman, are you allowed to shoot the person who poaches your herring???
I know that its not my livelihood [like lobsters are to lobsterman], but I worked hard and lost sleep getting those herring, and went to great lengths to keep them alive.
After going out fishing on Saturday morning, I returned to my dock to find my herring pen up-ended, broken, and obviously empty. My herring pen was on a Private Dock, on a Private Beach, in a gated community. If it wasn't safe there, then where? This is the second time this has happened. The first time I chalked it up to local kids, but after talking to parents, etc I think it might be an adult.
Why can't people have a little respect and leave well enough alone??? I think a fellow fisherman would realize what it takes to get those fish and sustain them, and respect that. If the person had asked, I would have sold or traded them some live herring. But of course not. They have to ruin the pen and steal the fish.
I guess I have to lock my new pen up and stick off my mooring.
Sorry for the diatribe, i just needed to vent.
