This made me sick to watch

[HDMarc]

Yet they continue to put the screws to recreational anglers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inSN...e_gdata_player

[RussA]

WHat about it makes you sick? The actual waste or the regulators that make them do that?

[HDMarc]

Originally Posted by RussA

WHat about it makes you sick? The actual waste or the regulators that make them do that?

Both

[DaveTats]

Damn. Some nice fish there too.

What a shame

[makokeith]

Instead of dumping them in a bin he should have threw them over board right away. Maybe some of them would have survived. The whole thing makes me sick.

[Sharkyispy]

It's all over Facebook....and as I said there....my rods and reels don't pull in that many quality fish in one single great season, so again we are over fishing the quota how????? time to wake up.....

[Capt Joe]

Yep, and next week when the quota is 200 lbs, dipshit with the net will kill 2000lbs to get his 200 lb of jumbos.
And you think they give a shit? Never have and never will.

[Dino]

always tough to watch things like this, but you have to understand.. the rules that make this guy dump 4 totes of large fluke overboard dead discard, also prevent him and the rest of the fleet from dialing in on them, and hammering them for sale at market.

very similiar to the bluefin/longline issue at the moment.

which is worse, the wastefulness of discarding thousands of pounds of beautiful big bluefin every season, or a longline industry that is allowed to sell them, and home in their sets on the bluefin grounds instead of picking them up as bycatch when surface longlining for swordfish and yellowfin.


I'd rather have the dead discards.

I believe in small govt, but I also know there is nothing easy about regulating fisheries. And I think the bluefin, swordfish, striped bass and fluke situations are much better now, then they were when gov't just stayed out of it.

[rumster]

At the end of the day it`s all about dollars and cents and the little guy always gets screwed in a corrupt system like this. With great footage like this why can`t we collectively use this as a perfect example of a screwed up system that`s abused. Pictures speak louder than words and I think that in the right forum this could be explosive if we chose to flood a meeting and use documented footage like this to make a point.
Between fish and game being caught with their hand in the cookie jar a year or two ago using boats worth $150,000 or more that were purchased for the enforcement of our resources used for family outings on the taxpayers dime and this. I have had enough.
Gerry what can we do to make some noise?

[HDMarc]

Originally Posted by rumster

Gerry what can we do to make some noise?

For starters, you can follow along with Gerry's sticky post regarding the 2014 state regulations and send an email, get as many people you can to follow suit