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Jellyfish
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Amazing  The amount of gill nets found by the Coast Guard Corpus Christi sector amounts to almost one mile per week during 2012. Now the feds want to limit legal shark fishermen by imposing an unrealistic minimum length. It's incredible to me that the feds are not able to connect this illegal activity to the decline in shark populations. I guess the state department doesn't want to PO the Mexican govt by enforcing the law. Maybe a few more of those DPS black boats patrolling off the coast would slow this gill net activity down, especially if they opened up those unused machine guns they proudly show off.
http://www.caller.com/news/2012/dec/19/proposed-blacktip-shark-restriction/
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deputydawg
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| Can't say what I feel on this forum! That is just terrible though. |
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shallowsport
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From reports that I get most of these illegal nets come from the south. Just like our boarder crossers we do very little about it.
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ltorna1
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| Jellyfish wrote: | Amazing The amount of gill nets found by the Coast Guard Corpus Christi sector amounts to almost one mile per week during 2012. Now the feds want to limit legal shark fishermen by imposing an unrealistic minimum length. It's incredible to me that the feds are not able to connect this illegal activity to the decline in shark populations. I guess the state department doesn't want to PO the Mexican govt by enforcing the law. Maybe a few more of those DPS black boats patrolling off the coast would slow this gill net activity down, especially if they opened up those unused machine guns they proudly show off.
http://www.caller.com/news/2012/dec/19/proposed-blacktip-shark-restriction/ |
Interesting that not one of the sharks in the gillnet was a dusky shark, the ones that they are trying to protect with the proposed 8' blacktip regulation. Just goes to show you that dusky's are just not that common around here, at least not common enough to warrent an gulf-wide 8' size limit (i.e. a year round moratorium on texas black tips, because virtually none of our blacktips are 8')
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SeanHHH
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| I came across one during Thanksgiving. It was pulled up onto one of the spoils in the Back Yard. Called the GW a day or two later, gave him the exact location but evidently they weren't able to recover it. |
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SeaLevelApparel
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| deputydawg wrote: | | Can't say what I feel on this forum! That is just terrible though. |
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Words cannot describe how we feel about this kind of crap.
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ironmanstan
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| SeanHHH wrote: | | I came across one during Thanksgiving. It was pulled up onto one of the spoils in the Back Yard. Called the GW a day or two later, gave him the exact location but evidently they weren't able to recover it. |
Thats because the guys went and retrieved their nets. Usually gill nets strung out in areas such as the backyard are the work of younger less experienced commercial outlaws. You could have taken your knife and cut the nets up. However its like anything else, saw some new nets being made just the other day, it doesn't take long to build a set of nets. Now if you get caught by the netters cutting their gill nets up they might slap you around for awhile and poke holes in your boat ( nothing major ).  fyi
The wars continue.
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ReelHookers
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| Iil be the first to say it. Danm you mexicans! |
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rabbit
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All that waste. Its discusting. 
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pinsfish
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If laws are not enforced the law breakers thrive. The good guys get penalized.
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| ironmanstan wrote: | | SeanHHH wrote: | | I came across one during Thanksgiving. It was pulled up onto one of the spoils in the Back Yard. Called the GW a day or two later, gave him the exact location but evidently they weren't able to recover it. |
Thats because the guys went and retrieved their nets. Usually gill nets strung out in areas such as the backyard are the work of younger less experienced commercial outlaws. You could have taken your knife and cut the nets up. However its like anything else, saw some new nets being made just the other day, it doesn't take long to build a set of nets. Now if you get caught by the netters cutting their gill nets up they might slap you around for awhile and poke holes in your boat ( nothing major ). fyi
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Kinda like the drum fishermen off Laguna shores that think its ok to use a piece of broken half arse alge covered foam to mark their lines. Yep, that guys line got wacked with my bait knife. That's a navigation hazard and after it put a hole in my drift bag, I did something about it! Commercial guys that don't care about the resource or fellow boaters safety have no business in that industry. |
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gulftrout
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| flounder daddy wrote: | | ironmanstan wrote: | | SeanHHH wrote: | | I came across one during Thanksgiving. It was pulled up onto one of the spoils in the Back Yard. Called the GW a day or two later, gave him the exact location but evidently they weren't able to recover it. |
Thats because the guys went and retrieved their nets. Usually gill nets strung out in areas such as the backyard are the work of younger less experienced commercial outlaws. You could have taken your knife and cut the nets up. However its like anything else, saw some new nets being made just the other day, it doesn't take long to build a set of nets. Now if you get caught by the netters cutting their gill nets up they might slap you around for awhile and poke holes in your boat ( nothing major ). fyi
The wars continue. |
Kinda like the drum fishermen off Laguna shores that think its ok to use a piece of broken half arse alge covered foam to mark their lines. Yep, that guys line got wacked with my bait knife. That's a navigation hazard and after it put a hole in my drift bag, I did something about it! Commercial guys that don't care about the resource or fellow boaters safety have no business in that industry. |
Stringing illegal nets is not anything like or even comparable to LEGAL drum fisherman using LEGAL pieces of foam to mark their lines. You are the one breaking the law in this case. Who are you to say legal commercial fishermen do not care about the resourse. I personally HOPE one of these legal drum fishermen CATCH you ILLEGALLY messing with their LEGAL lines and teach you a valuable lesson young man. You will be in for a rude awakening at that very moment!  |
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flounder daddy
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| Mark the F'in line legally and there won't be any problems. If anyone approaches my vessel, I hope they are quick on the draw. When you do not mark your lines vissibly for other boaters, your the one breaking laws. I have no tolerance for lazy arse fishermen. Mark your lines properly, end of story! |
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hickroots07
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 here we go...
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