Best day of fishing of my LIFE!!!! take a look:)
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TanTastic84
Active Member
I think every sportsman out there owes you a debt of gratitude my man. Well done. And thank you for stepping up and doing your civic duty to speak up about others breaking the law.
This really should be a lesson to everyone to stand up and take charge of a situation when you feel a wrong is being committed.
This really should be a lesson to everyone to stand up and take charge of a situation when you feel a wrong is being committed.
cby
Well-Known Member
Get in touch with Chek News, CTV news. Times Colonist. This is a gold mine for them. Particularly with all the closures. This should be gold to the news outlets and media.
cby
Well-Known Member
Where was this capture taken? Is it on the island? Vancouver? Would be good to know?
Balsy move, "detaining" those guys. The one pic of the guy pointing at you looks more than a little bit threatening.
With any luck, their nice truck & the boat will be up for auction soon!
The whole "screw the rules, I'm gonna TAKE whatever I want" culture pisses me off. I guess fair play is only for suckers, these days.
We have had two local boats seized in our area, recently. One crab poacher & another guy (last spring) with 30 rockfish on board.
It makes me sad that most of the worst offenders seem to be of Asian decent. They taint their entire community with their actions.
At least, once in a while DFO seems to remember they have some teeth.
Congrats on getting these jerks nabbed
With any luck, their nice truck & the boat will be up for auction soon!
The whole "screw the rules, I'm gonna TAKE whatever I want" culture pisses me off. I guess fair play is only for suckers, these days.
We have had two local boats seized in our area, recently. One crab poacher & another guy (last spring) with 30 rockfish on board.
It makes me sad that most of the worst offenders seem to be of Asian decent. They taint their entire community with their actions.
At least, once in a while DFO seems to remember they have some teeth.
Congrats on getting these jerks nabbed
SaltyAlice
Well-Known Member
Bravo, and THANK YOU! There is a common misconception amongst those that don't fish/hunt that sportsmen/women are out to raid all of nature, but we know that when you fish/hunt you are more in tune with the realities of the ecosystem. As hunters we know it is as important to enjoy your sport as it is to caretake for it and be a steward for the ecosystem. I teach my kids that it is important to put more back into the system than you take out by way of being an advocate and donating time and money to research-based meaningful restoration and preservation projects. It takes all of us to ensure the ecosystem is healthy and thriving, and that extends to holding assclowns like this accountable. Treating nature this way is how we end up with a dead planet, and no heritage left for our children and I view it as a significant crime above and beyond simple theft poaching.
You, good sir, have earned your place in Valhalla.
You, good sir, have earned your place in Valhalla.
littlechucky
Crew Member
Curious - where do the crab end up in these situations?
Gong Show
Well-Known Member
Careful there trigger.
The front line CO's and RCMP are, for the most part, eager to catch poachers like this.
They are not given the resources to do so. That lays squarely on the bean counter bureaucrats in Ottawa and Victoria.
Now those same bean counters are trying to keep the eyes and ears of the recreational fishing community off the water.
Gong Show
Well-Known Member
Good question. In commercial cases that I have been involved in, they are sold and the money held by the Crown pending the court outcome, where they seek to have it forfeited to the Crown.
Usually the prosecutor will ask for the fine to be directed to some non-profit outfit that works in the crabbing/salmon?whatever the product was, field of research or remediation.
With this haul it will be different. I can only assume that there will be females and undersized in there. These are not commercially saleable.
I know that they will be weighed and photographed but will not be going into the evidence locker.
littlechucky
Crew Member
Crab has to be cooked soon after it is killed otherwise the meat degrades is my recollection.
Hopefully they get returned to the ocean.
Scorpiofisher
Member
Awesome job Andrew. Hopefully you inspire many more people to do this if they ever come across something similar.
