[Fish_Eye]

I've been filming these ships since December -- that's right, just when a lot of the fish are moving out of the bay, these 140' to 150' boats are scooping them up with the Atlantic herring they are targeting.

These photos were taken January 8, 2012. These ships were working the waters off Narragansett and they were around 1,000 feet off the shoreline. Each boat can take up to 800,000 pounds of herring -- and who knows how much bycatch -- they sometimes dump the catch in New Bedford and then run back to continue fishing.

Drive the coast and you'll see just how many boats are working our shoreline -- with little value to the local economy. You wonder where the river herring are? Want to bet there are no observers on board?

This is insane!