"Hey! Remember how you had a hankerin' for tuna steaks? Just got off the phone - some schlub thought he could keep his catch!"
Posted on 11/21/2011 4:39:29 PM PST by GQuagmire
For one New Bedford fisherman, the big one that got away was the one that was taken away -- by federal fisheries agents.
Carlos Rafael, owner of Carlos Seafood, has 15 boats that hunt for groundfish like haddock and flounder, but they have tuna permits just in case. So when one of his captains called to report that his crew had caught an 882-pound tuna in their trawling gear about a week ago, Rafael thought he would legally be able to sell the fish.
“I called the hotline for tuna to make sure I was doing everything by the books,” he said. “I was not trying to hide anything.”
But when the fishing boat docked in Provincetown, the fish was confiscated by federal agents. Rafael said he didn’t know that tuna must be caught by rod and reel – not by a net – in order to be kept and sold.
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You don’t keep ‘em, you cook ‘em!
I have a feeling some fisheries agents are going to have some really good sushi.
The message..."Sorry, Charlie".
If you don’t keep your mouth shut, you don’t keep ‘em!
Government...Unexpected????
Government steals fisherman’s catch of a lifetime, sells it to pay federal debt; proceeds fund government for 40 milliseconds
I don't know if it'll be really good or not...but there'll be a hell of a lot of it.
And NO PICS EVEN! I WANT PICS!
“I’m going to surrender all my permits. I pay all that money every year,” he said. “Next time I catch [a tuna] I’m going to throw it over the side.”
What he should do is occasionally call the fisheries and report the general location where he saw the last floater.... “a few days ago”.
No, just carry a heavy-duty rod and a Penn 6/0. When he nets one, voila! - a rod and reel catch.
Just don't try and palm off a spinning rod and 6 lb test. :-)
It’s the new dolphin-safe tuna standards. Even though not on porpoise, dolphins get can caught in huge fish trawling nets, be unable to surface, and drown — and nobody eats poor Flipper so it’s deemed a tragic waste. Still, unless they are banning private nets per se (rather than by type of fish caught), this sounds like overdoing it.
Welcome to democrat hell. In this world, Hemingway would have been more inclined to write Orwell style books.
Yea, the auction will be held in their office among the employees and agents.
“You are killing me, fish, the old man thought. But you have a right to. Never have I seen a greater, or more beautiful, or a calmer or more noble thing than you, brother. Come on and kill me. I do not care who kills who.”
When the law is adminstered by criminals there is no justice, mercy or common sense. Let them have their pound of flesh, but not a drop of blood.
LOL.... We fish for Halibut where I live.
I actually like the 30 pounders, but some of these monsters can get up to 200#. Those things can take well over an hour to land.... not my kind of fun... too much work. LOL
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