Thread: effing poachers
View Single Post
Old 02-03-2011, 02:54 PM   #18
Raven
........
iTrader: (0)
 
Raven's Avatar
 
Join Date: Apr 2002
Posts: 22,805
Blog Entries: 1
Quote:
Originally Posted by l.i.fish.in.vt View Post
as far as poaching goes what do you think the annual fish poached by recs amount to.undersized fish and over the limit fish.lets look at both sides of the picture.i wouldn't be surprised if recs keep as many shorts as they do legals coast wide.if fines aren't big enough,its just a cost of doing business for the commercial guy.and the recrational poachers just figure what are the chances of getting caught.
I just remember those highway signs
in certain areas that read 1000.00 dollar fine for littering
and once they got posted it was spotless

i do think fines for commercial volumes of fish should be higher than
someone possessing a single fish ... some kind of scale...
Raven is offline   Reply With Quote