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10-24-2005, 07:23 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: RI
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I bet problems & situations like this occur way more often than we really know about. Sickening. Alot of scumbags around and not enough officials to monitor & stop it.  |
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10-24-2005, 11:17 AM
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Uncle Remus
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Lakeville Ma.
Posts: 14,773
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That is terrible. Is it against the law? Who would you report that to and would they do anything? Bycatch is a terrible thing.
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"A beach is a place where a man can feel he's the only soul in the world that's real"
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10-24-2005, 11:20 AM
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D'oh
Join Date: May 2004
Location: RI
Posts: 3,296
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[i thought i posted this earlier, guess not, maybe it ended up somewhere else]
Did you guys get it on film? That would make a great episode of "on the hook!!!"
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i bent my wookie
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10-24-2005, 11:27 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2002
Posts: 3,595
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FILM baby ...
big time film it and send it off
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10-24-2005, 06:05 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: On my boat
Posts: 9,703
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Pete,
I know you guys were filming for an episode of On The Water,
You should have turned the cameras to that for an episode !!!
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LETS GO BRANDON
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10-24-2005, 06:28 PM
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Old Guy
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Mansfield, MA
Posts: 8,760
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Exactly a damn friggin shame
Unfortunately, bycatch is self-policing unless there is an observer on boat.
These boats are restricted by the government not to sell what they vacuum up in their nets. Herring is a small mesh fishery and it's not unusual to see large amounts of any fish feeding on the herring to be discarded sometime it could be 50% of the haul. souther shrimping can be over 70% And you wonder why tuna follow them around
A popular agreement with commericals now is the the sporting community has a higher mortality with catch and release than discarded fish!! Right, I see that!!!!
If these commercials have the latest gear they can tell the mix of what is down there, each fish has a different acoustic signature. Would love to see that captured and reviewed along with gps coordinates of each haul back to
NMFS or DEP. Unfortunately, it's take over 10 years just to get trackers in scallopers!!!
Bill
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10-25-2005, 12:02 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Marshfield, MA
Posts: 1,751
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Unfortunatly I don't think what you guys witnessed is illegal. Those trawlers threw the bass back because comm bass season is over and must be caught on hook and line. So they have to throw the bycatch over. It is a product of commercial dragging. I don't favor gillnets either but gillnetting is far more size specific than a dragger, species specific not. Science has come a long way with new types of drag nets that will catchmore of a specific species because of different colors and things at the beginning of a trawl say to scare cod away and catch more haddock that hang a bit higher than cod. Neat stuff. But I agree when you see that it is is an eye opener.
Just wait till next month when you guys will be into nice cod jigging between graves and the B-bouy. Then Dec 1st the inshore gillnetters will be there. And when they haul there nets and get more than there 600# or what ever they are allowed the rest will go over dead. I forget if they imposed a closer in this area with the meetings they had this past summer on this situation. Maybe it is closed to all fishing this year?? Don't know.
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Jon, 24' Nauset-Green Topsides, Beamie, North River. Channel 68/69. MSBA, NIBA
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