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What a sad looking spread of fish poached by an equally sad group of human beings. I’m glad they got the book thrown at them...
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Perfect!! Americans abuse our fisheries continually. This is a great outcome to a sad situation.
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Blacktail1
Perfect!! Americans abuse our fisheries continually. This is a great outcome to a sad situation.
Sad but it's not just Americans. Friend of mine lived in Prince Rupert and told me of a number of Albertans fishing up there and getting busted for the same sort of thing.
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Kinda strange that they forfeited the boats engines but not the boat itself ??
Wonder what the rationale was behind that ?
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VLD43
Sad but it's not just Americans. Friend of mine lived in Prince Rupert and told me of a number of Albertans fishing up there and getting busted for the same sort of thing.
Poachers come from every walk of life and know no boundaries.
A good friend is a fish cop and BC residents are by and large a bigger issue than visitors when it comes to poaching. I’m not saying that to try and make anyone think there isn’t people from Alberta heading to the coast and poaching, because I’m sure there is. It’s a percentage of the population thing and there are more BC residents plying the waters on the coast on a given day than people from anywhere else.
There is a great animosity towards Albertans traveling to the coast and going out on the salt-chuck fishing though so I can see where your misconception would be easy to spread.
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where were these guys from?
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fuzzybiscuit
Poachers come from every walk of life and know no boundaries.
A good friend is a fish cop and BC residents are by and large a bigger issue than visitors when it comes to poaching. I’m not saying that to try and make anyone think there isn’t people from Alberta heading to the coast and poaching, because I’m sure there is. It’s a percentage of the population thing and there are more BC residents plying the waters on the coast on a given day than people from anywhere else.
There is a great animosity towards Albertans traveling to the coast and going out on the salt-chuck fishing though so I can see where your misconception would be easy to spread.
All good points and i agree with you. I was just trying to clarify here and not throw all from Alberta or any other province under the bus. If you read the article, it stated the three involved were not from BC. I was just countering the point about Americans, from information I have received from a trusted source.
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Again
Fines and penalties never big enough.
Laughable our courts.
They obviously had help, they will be back .
POS !
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How do you buy a 30’ fishing boat with what sounds like two engines(maybe ones a kicker), drag it from another province/country, pay for fuel, tackle and everything else and then skimp out on a license. That’s the cheap part.
My guess is albertan Newfies. This kind of thing is a pretty typical story for every Newfie I’ve talked too. A Newfie friend of mine was telling me his dad got caught with too many fish and I made a comment like “he was caught poaching” and he looked at me very sincerely and with an honest answer said “no, no, he just had too many fish, he had tags, just not enough”.