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Originally Posted by choggieman
prolly more like 4000.00 and to pay for it he'll have to fish a coupla extra days... word is he made 25 times the fine selling fish this year..so a 4% loss to a fine with no other repercussions makes good business sense to keep doin it...... love how the law makes it a reality.
worse part is that he is just one of dozens who do the same thing, poaching on a comm. license. All the guys that do multiple trips per day, killing their 5 each trip, they are selling them somewhere too. I have seen the same boat go in and out of the river with the guys limit over and over day after day.
how many guys catch their fish in r.i. and run them to mass? I know a couple who do. Best excuse i have heard is that " I only do it when I need drinking money". that is without a comm license, so someone somewhere is buyin those fish totally illegally. Lots and lots of "black market" unregulated poaching, buying and selling goin on
it is impossible to regulate, make em a gamefish and be done with it. No poaching if there is no market for ther fish
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It's common practice when RI commercial season closes and MASS opens the RI guys don't change fishing grounds they just change where they bring the fish.They do hold MASS licenses.The mentality is the fine won't make a dent in the profits and the odds of getting caught are slim to none.
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