Round 2

[baetis]

If tip-ups have to be labeled with a name and address, maybe NY should implement a rule that coolers containing fish must be labeled.

[Flygaff]

I do not at all agree with what these guys are doing but SCREW THE LAWS

[frugalfisherman]

What happened to the "enough is enough" chant. Now everybody is ragging on the protestors.

[mahigold]

This happened again because most walked away scot-free 3 weeks ago. It is ridiculous that the boat and those that abandoned coolers get off. Cant they figure out a more efficient way to catch these guys?????

[dales529]

Originally Posted by frugalfisherman

What happened to the "enough is enough" chant. Now everybody is ragging on the protestors.

IF they were doing it as a protest to make a statement against Bad Regulations I would have less angst. In reality the boat tried to deny it and the anglers ran away without making any statement.

ALL they accomplished was to tarnish recreational fishermen and incite NOAA to further reduce our quota next year with a "non compliance" percentage reduction.

Great job

[bunker dunker]

it will keep happening until the regs are just.the recs watch as thousands of pounds of fish they can't fish for are unloaded at the co-ops almost everyday.
we all get that comm guys need jobs to but enough is enough.the rec guys send proff,hire their own bio's and still they get nothing.there is a chant of"i'm gonna get mine" going around the rec world and it looks like peeps mean it.

[baetis]

Porgy limits are liberal. Keeping undersized or over the # of limit on porgies ins't a protest, just greed.

[Taxman]

What brings a smile to my face is anybody who has sailed on a party boat knows there is usually a few guys that come crashing down the side of the boat as it is pulling into the slip with their coolers and gear bouncing off people just so they can get off the boat first.

They would have been the ones the law enforcement checked first and caught

The ones on the boat had the chance to see what was going on and were able to forget their cooler in all of the excitment

[Jigman13]

The Viking fleet has been a reliable, successfully and well-run mainstay out east. I have a really hard time believing everything in this article/report is accurate. The Forsbergs, from my my experience and extended experiences of others I know, have run a quality operation for decades. There's gotta be more to this and/or something inaccurately reported. I can't just see the Viking fleet saying f it let's kill and keep everything. I know everyone has their tipping point but there's too much history and reputation here I think for them to go this route. Just my two cents...

[shresearchdude]

the boat is clearly innocent of any wrongdoing-unless you look back at the history of the fleet.

Nov 18, 2008

http://www.27east.com/news/article.c.../181055/Viking