Actually, he got the Death Penalty! (Equivalent)
...and order Paalksnis forfeit his 15-foot boat seized by authorities.
Posted on 01/29/2017 9:06:02 PM PST by nickcarraway
An Onalaska angler caught with more than 2,500 panfish pleaded no contest Tuesday to four citations for exceeding possession limits.
Stanley Paalksnis, 74, faces fines totaling $24,683, although prosecutors agreed to ask a La Crosse County Circuit judge impose a $10,000 fine, revoke his fishing privileges for 12 years and order Paalksnis forfeit his 15-foot boat seized by authorities. He will be sentenced at a later date.
Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources wardens Nov. 4, 2015, on Lake Onalaska saw Paalksnis keep 47 bluegills, according to court records. The daily limit is 25.
Pause Current Time 0:00 / Duration Time 0:00 Loaded: 0%Progress: 0%0:00 Fullscreen 00:00 Mute In his boat and house, authorities found 2,066 bluegills, 418 perch and 88 crappies, reports stated. The possession limits are 50 for each species.
Paalksnis told a warden that for 20 years he was selling bags of fish for $5 in Chicago, reports stated.
The DNR issued Paalksnis seven citations for exceeding possession limits between 1989 and 2011 in Buffalo and La Crosse counties. His fishing privileges were revoked twice.
It takes a lot of panfish to make a sammich.
So, a 74 year-old guy has his fishing license revoked for 12 years. Would that be a life sentence? if so would it constitute cruel and unusual punishment?
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He can still fish in other states?
He should still be allowed to fish for his own food.
Actually, he got the Death Penalty! (Equivalent)
...and order Paalksnis forfeit his 15-foot boat seized by authorities.
On the Finger Lakes, maybe 10 to at least 40 miles long, there are plenty of panfish. When I would go out on the dock to toss bread to the bluegills, the water would just boil for the chunks, as if they were piranhas eating a cow. I can see putting size limits on length and numbers for big game fish (bass, walleyes, lake trout, pike).
In fact, panfish are so prolific that if they are not well fished out, they eat up the food and the overall population of game fish becomes smaller and smaller in average size. The competing panfish need to be heavily fished, IMHO, to keep the game fish healthy.
Bluegill. Not running out of them.
What in hell is he going to do with 2500 bream? Eat them? At age 74 he dont have time to eat that many bream. Sell them?
Being from Wisconsin, I have no sympathy for this unlicensed market fisher.
He is just a greedy bastard and I am glad he got caught!
That's a lot of fish, even little fish.
Sell them?
“Paalksnis told a warden that for 20 years he was selling bags of fish for $5 in Chicago, reports stated.”
Give a Man a Fish, and You Feed Him for a Day. Teach a Man To Fish, and You Feed Him for a Lifetime
Not
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When my kids were little we went to a friend’s house and fished in their pond. There were so many bluegill that you didn’t even have to bait the hook. If it hit the water, there was a fish on it! We spent more time getting them off the hook then we did fishing.
My friend cleaned all of them and there were so many that we couldn’t eat them in one meal.
Ruined the kids for fishing.... they thought that was how it was supposed to work!
Daffy, how on earth do you come up with all this screwball information?
(Using electrical current to stun fish, from the original method involving the generator from an old crank telephone.)
LOL!
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