It is not illegal, it is not a violation, for a gillnetter to discard 5lbs.; 10lbs.; 100lbs.; 1000lbs. etc over his allowable quota !!! It is considered overage [discard] it is not illegal for another boat to come behind a boat discarding overage and picking them out of the water by hand, gaff or a fish dip net!!!
It is illegal for a commercial boat to pass it's cod dicard, by-catch or overage to another commercial boat!!! And if you can get a picture of that, plus the two boats big black & white numbers in that picture then you may be going in the right direction!!!!
If the state really wanted to curtail this passing of fish they would have an under cover boat out there and they do not need a camera!!!!
Happy Holidays!!!!
Threaded Mode