I didn’t read the whole article, but from the excerpt, I didn’t see where he made a “mistake.” He made a conscious decision to break the law and tried to profit from it. ridiculous reporting like this is as much fake news as CNN.
True, but I can see how a combination of debt and temptation can cause a person to lose their head. Being a commercial fisherman down here after a few really bad economic years and all the regulatory crap from the EPA and other alphabet agencies he probably had a lot of debt to make him stupid.
On the other hand in my experience a lot of commercial fishermen here are on the shady side and they often hire ex cons who can give them ideas and contacts.
Anyone else wouldn’t even know a couple guys who could market the stuff. Obviously this guy knew some shady folks well enough to bring it up to them so he’s not exactly as naive as advertised.