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01-07-2009, 02:37 PM
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"Officers boarded the Mount Vernon after watching the 80-foot vessel drag a net about two miles off the Ocean City inlet all day Sunday, according to Sgt. Ken Turner, a police spokesman."
 the officers watched them drag a net all day and waited till then to board them what's wrong with that?  Why wait? they should have just boarded them earlier 
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01-07-2009, 03:20 PM
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Location: Rhode Island
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If you started poaching stripers your fine would be zero because you'd never get caught unless you shot your mouth off.
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01-07-2009, 04:56 PM
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Location: Hyde Park, MA
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Next they (the poachers) will file a lawsuit that claims that if the officers KNEW they were poaching, why didn't they stop them earlier?
You know that old chestnut about "If you knew I was breaking the law, you should have stopped me earlier".
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01-07-2009, 06:50 PM
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Location: Warwick RI,02889
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yeah Slip that,s what I thought / if they were fishing on a OFF day //as soon as the net went over or at the most the 1st haul / nail them .. But WTF 6000lbs of dead bass ... did they bury them like the old days ;;
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ENJOY WHAT YOU HAVE !!!
MIKE
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01-07-2009, 06:57 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2002
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great question
filets for the homeless perhaps....
to go along with the venison....
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01-08-2009, 09:18 PM
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viva the plug-o-lution
Join Date: May 2002
Location: notsob
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isnt that like $30,000, worth of fish? wonder how many times they did it and didnt get caught.
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live to fish. fish to live. rod tips high.
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01-08-2009, 10:04 PM
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Location: Rhode Island
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Prison is expensive. It costs $120 a day to put someone in federal prison. So that's $840 a week, plus health care for him, plus the loss of whatever tax he pays and his employees pay.
If you fine him to the point where he goes under and everyone working for him loses thier jobs, they figure those people are not going to find a new one for a long time.
The cost of prosecution probably did not add up. He probably owned the business and made a living from it, but was cash poor - which is probably why he was poaching. I don't condone it, but locking people up and shutting people down has costs also. We're at the point where every person who becomes unemployed stays that way for a long time.
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01-11-2009, 02:04 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: south shore , ma
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Slipknot
"Officers boarded the Mount Vernon after watching the 80-foot vessel drag a net about two miles off the Ocean City inlet all day Sunday, according to Sgt. Ken Turner, a police spokesman."
the officers watched them drag a net all day and waited till then to board them what's wrong with that? Why wait? they should have just boarded them earlier
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i agree with slipknot , such a waste and with the y.o.y being down the last 5 years there are going to be less fish agian , i can smell the late 70's early 80's coming back agian . " history shows agian and agian how nature points out the folly of man " b.o.c. |
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