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12-03-2010, 03:09 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Libtardia
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12-03-2010, 03:18 PM
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Join Date: May 2003
Location: Easton, MA
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Wow, big fines and jail time. Hopefully, this is how they'll treat poachers going forward. It should send a message to the other poachers out there that there is more than a slap on the wrist at stake.
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Conservatism is not about leaving people behind. Conservatism is about empowering people to catch up, to give them tools at their disposal that make it possible for them to access all the hope, all the promise, all the opportunity that America offers. - Marco Rubio
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12-03-2010, 03:23 PM
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Permanently Disconnected
Join Date: Nov 2002
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FANTASTIC!
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12-03-2010, 04:05 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: May 2008
Location: Mansfield, MA
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The jail time is nice to see but the fines are just a slap on the wrist.
The article's mention of the fines is deceiving:
"In total, the defendants were sentenced to more than 140 months in prison, and total fines and restitution exceed USD 1,361,000."
because the last sentence is:
"It ended in 19 men and three corporations being convicted. "
Profish is liable for $880,000 of that $1.36 mil.
I'd bet the other 2 corps are paying 6 figure fines.
The largest individual fine seems to be $60,000, which comes out $5,000 per year that they've been poaching.
Definitely a step forward.
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12-03-2010, 04:08 PM
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Chris Blouin
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Warren, RI
Posts: 3,330
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Great news! Nice to see someone finally get busted. Only down side is they let the poaching go on for 10 years while building a case.
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12-03-2010, 04:10 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Marshfield, Ma
Posts: 2,150
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Thought they were supposed to sieze the boat too??? Doesn't mention that.
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"I know a taxidermy man back home. He gonna have a heart attack when he see what I brung him!"
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12-03-2010, 04:17 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: Sturbridge MA
Posts: 3,127
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5 months in jail is better than nothing but not in this case. This was the biggest striper poaching case in the Chesapeake, what does that tell the crooks that are robbing us of smaller amounts of fish. Why is it that the supplier does jail time but the buyers do not? If the people that are buying the fish do some time maybe the rest of them will think twice before they buy some illegal fish.
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Everything is better on the rocks.
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12-03-2010, 05:20 PM
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Hydro Orientated Lures
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Brockton,Ma
Posts: 8,484
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They been doing it for a decade ,,, should have got the chair .
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Belcher Goonfoock (retired)
(dob 4-21-07)
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12-03-2010, 05:26 PM
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BuzzLuck
Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: Brockton
Posts: 6,414
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Why did it take 5 years of undercover observation to shut this down?
In total, the defendants were sentenced to more than 140 months in prison, and total fines and restitution exceed $1,361,000.
A unit of federal and state lawyers as well as undercover officers investigated the black market operation for five years. It ended in 19 men and three corporations being convicted.
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 Given the diversity of the human species, there is no “normal” human genome sequence. We are all mutants.
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12-03-2010, 05:53 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: May 2008
Location: Chasing fat girls in the dark
Posts: 961
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I know a MA EPO who told me about some guys who were caught poaching juvenile eels on a mass scale for the Japanese markets. They lost the boat and gear they were using and were slapped with huge fines.
A lot of the boats they use for undercover work are confiscated from poachers.
You don't see them in marked vehicles very often but they fish among us quite a bit.
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12-03-2010, 05:55 PM
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Certifiable Intertidal Anguiologist
Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Somewhere between OOB & west of Watch Hill
Posts: 35,270
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Good.
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12-03-2010, 05:59 PM
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Afterhours Custom Plugs
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: R.I.
Posts: 8,642
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...and they all- including corps, should lose their licenses to catch and sell fish.
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12-03-2010, 06:29 PM
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Too old to give a....
Join Date: Dec 2007
Posts: 2,505
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I'm sure there are many, many more that will just be a little more wary.
As long as there are buyers there will be poachers.
It's a mankind thing. . . . a few have no problem with affecting the greater good. . . . always has been always will be.
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May fortune favor the foolish....
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12-04-2010, 03:14 PM
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Pete K.
Join Date: Jun 2007
Posts: 2,953
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They should Sink his boat and turn it into structure to create striper habitat
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12-04-2010, 03:44 PM
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Retired Surfer
Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: Sunset Grill
Posts: 9,511
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I can see their cellmates now, "hey, what are you in for"? "Me, poaching", followed by hysterical laughter.
This is awesome, fantastic............
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Swimmer a.k.a. YO YO MA
Serial Mailbox Killer/Seal Fisherman
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12-04-2010, 05:19 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Bethany CT
Posts: 2,883
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No, no, no. we’re 30… 30, three zero.
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12-04-2010, 10:33 PM
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Trophy Hunter Apprentice
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: THE Other Cape
Posts: 2,508
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EXCELLENT!! we need to see more BUSTS!!!
those guys aren't the only poachers out there.
agreed with ALL of the above,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
jerk their licenses, sink their boats, close the markets!!!
there cannot be fines, or jail time, or punishment that is stiff enough.
ZERO TOLERANCE would hopefully turn things around down there~~~
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between man and nature shall not be broken."~~ Leo Tolstoy
Tight Lines, and
Happy Hunting to ALL!
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12-05-2010, 08:04 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2010
Posts: 204
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Hey all!
They caught the fish gill netting. Seizing small junky boats would gain nothing. Most received jail times that were pretty substantial considering the history of enforcement by the feds. Its a start here on the Chesapeake. If you get a chance, read the entire case. You will learn why it took so long and how these guys were able to exploit a loophole in the law to their advantage.
Lets just hope they keep the pressure on!
CB
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12-05-2010, 08:40 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Canton, Mass.
Posts: 93
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Too bad they don't bust the illegal immigrants up here in Massachusetts.
Lot's of shorts and over the limit keepers being rustled.
No speekee Eeeeengleeesh!
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