The latest example of modern Chesapeake thievery occurred in late February when Natural Resource Police charged Rock Hall fishermen with multiple violations. All told, the NRP confiscated 3,200 pounds of rockfish and seized approximately 16,500 yards of illegally anchored gill nets. The kicker is last fall commercial interests argued that more liberal gill net rules would help NRP enforce the law more easily.
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Poaching - 2010-03-07 09:11:25
In every profession there are those whose operate outside the law including reporters who are like lawyers in the fact that 99 percent of them give the rest a bad name.
It's take nerve to try to paint all watermen with the "outlaw" brush while advocating that recreational fishermen can go "preseason trolling" for rock.CATCH AND RELEASE KILLS and these outlaw fishermen will kill a lot more fish than the poachers caught that were at least going to get eaten by somebody,not wasted in the name of sport.
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