Redux: "probably going to sell those fish" -- Clatsop County Matters

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Subject: Redux: "probably going to sell those fish"

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Date Posted: 09/ 5/06 8:05pm
In reply to: persecution complex? 's message, "The law is the law" on 08/27/06 7:29am

persecution complex? said:
"I'm sure that he knew what he was doing and was probably going to sell those fish when he got back to shore."

You're right that he did know what he was doing.
But you're 100% wrong if you think him, or 99.9% of Columbia River gillnetters and processors engage in under the table commerce on shorts or bycatch.

You're whole premise is founded in ignorance and you are talking out your ass. During any opening in August, there isn't one boat in the fleet fishing Tongue Point on down (Area 1) that doesnt collect a gob of short sturgeon on the low water sets. Some guys will get them worse than others, but they are neither targeted or kept and smuggled off in some imaginary black market. They are a nuisance, but an unavoidable nuisance and are immediately returned to the river when the net is all in. No one is going to risk the huge fine running around or going to the beach with a boat full of short sturgeon and certainly no buyer/processor is going to let several hundred pounds or more of short sturgeon cross his dock. The severe consequences of those actions by far outweigh any nominal monetary benefit.

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Subject	Author	Date
Good points	Grossman	09/ 6/06 1:53pm