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ANYONE that nets fish should have their nets registered and be required to have a beacon attached for easier location.
If they are allowed to just trash them and just "walk away", they are quity of littering/polluting and could be affecting more than just the bass. Although this may be a stretch, what if that net were to reach the gulf stream and make it up to the Right whale breeding/feeding grounds? Surely that would warrant some interraction by the EPO's?
The owners of these nets need to be held LEGALLY accountable for the fish caught in them. Ghost net or poacher, they need to understand that they can and will be charged accordingly.
Until there is a strict deterrency to this kind of action/event, all that will happen is tons of bass will die needlessly, THAT"S ALL!
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