Posted on 09/15/2016 5:26:34 AM PDT by w1n1
The following press release is courtesy of the California Department of Fish and Wildlife:
Two Southern California men have been convicted and fined for abalone poaching and other resource crimes, stemming from a September 2015 California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) enforcement case.
CDFW wildlife officers assigned to the patrol boat Thresherdiscovered the two men poaching abalone at Catalina Island. The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office subsequently prosecuted both individuals.
Hee Won Chai, 75, of Los Angeles was charged with taking and possessing six pink abalone. Chai pleaded no contest to all six poaching counts. He was ordered by the court to pay $61,626 in fines and penalties, and $1,000 to the CDFW Preservation Fund. Additionally all of his SCUBA equipment was forfeited by the court and his fishing privileges permanently revoked.
Jin Chai Jeong, 58, of Garden Grove was charged with taking and possessing two pink abalone, three green abalone and four spiny lobsters out of season, as well as attempting to destroy evidence. Jeong pleaded no contest to all of the abalone and lobster charges. He was also ordered by the court to pay $61,626 in fines and penalties and $1,000 to the CDFW Preservation Fund, and his SCUBA gear was forfeited by the court and his fishing privileges permanently revoked.
“An extraordinary amount of time and effort is invested in helping the Southern California abalone populations rebound, including the sacrifice of honest abalone harvesters who cannot currently fish for abalone south of San Francisco,” said CDFW Law Enforcement Asst. Chief Mike Stefanak. Read the rest of the story here.
Every Asian that I see fishing keeps everything
they pull in.They throw nothing back.
I used to think I was bad about keeping one 1/2” short.
After a year in SE Asia way back I still don`t care
for Asians.Well maybe ROK`s are ok they saved my hide once.
Well said.
I doubt that these two are fifth generation. Even so, this behavior speaks to the fact that there are certain cultures which consistently view life as a zero-sum game and that socialization to western and US values is, for all intents and purposes, nonexistent.
They are socialized only to the extent that they vote D and are on the public dole, one way or another.
I grew up in SoCal in the 50s. Heard stories about the old days (30s & 40s) when abalones could be had at low tide. Seemed unbelievable since you had to dive to find them by the 60s. Anyway, my college summer job was on an albacore boat. When storms would come up, we’d anchor off of Santa Rosa island. At the time it was a private ranch. We’d take the skiff to a beach and enjoy the day off—and find abalone at low tide. Pretty good eating, but you had to beat them with a tenderizer hammer for a while.
Yup. Excellent.
Dove Catalina with my dad in the early 70's for abalone, down there in the kelp.
Try dipping a french fry in vanilla ice cream, for a taste of abalone! Series!
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If he is an immigrant, legal or not, send him home since he can no longer support himself. Else let his family or someone else sponsor him. Bottom line, he should not become a burden on US taxpayers due to his criminal behavior.
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Now, *that’s* a hoot. This is CA we’re talking about, land of the Reconquest.
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“...and his fishing privileges permanently revoked.”
Not that I condone what these guys were doing, but I think the Founding Fathers would slap anyone who could write that sentence with a straight face.
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True enough. The idea of the ‘king’s waters\forest’ would be abhorrent to ‘em.
Sad, but, as you can read here, even the (R)\(C) have their own Fascist oxs that dare not get gored.
First time I ate abalone was in Chile in the mid 70s. They called it “locos mayo” because you had to be crazy to beat a fish to be able to eat it. You could hear the hammers working away in the kitchens.
Agreed. In California, I find the racism from immigrant Chinese people, the ones who actually travelled here from China, the absolute worst. As a white American I am not treated badly, insulted or mocked or denigrated, that's too crude. No, it's far worse than that - I simply and literally don't exist to them. I am not acknowledged in public by Chinese people, they walk through me, talk through me, stand in my way, never make eye contact, never say excuse me, never smile - nothing. They are very pointedly and deliberately not polite to me in ways big and small, simply because to them I am not there. Its what they don't do, the human interactions they absolutely refuse to have, and its not "cultural" because they observe these things with each other. It's both weird and, when understood, infuriating. They are hard, absolute racists down to their bones.
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