AndrewH
Well-Known Member
Well zipped out after work at 3 for a few hours and managed to scrape together 75 prawns, a 23lb ling, low teens spring and 4 nice 7" crabs but the real treat was what I caught last!
Arrived back at the dock at 830ish and noticed that a group of three were wheeling a large covered cart up the ramp so I jumped out to take a look at what the heck was going on. It was full of crabs and they were not happy to see me. I asked them about all the crab and they were bragging they had 800!!!!
At this point I changed my tone and told them they are not leaving and sort of detained them as I called the cops. With rcmp on the way (figured they would arrive wayyyy before DFO), I then called fisheries and told them the situation. They arrived a little later and were very happy as they individuals were known to them. The best part is according to the rcmp, since they had about 400 crab already loaded in there brand new 3500 ram so that is also on the table to be seized as well as the boat.
It looks to me that they basically cleaned out any traps in the bay that they came across.
Arrived back at the dock at 830ish and noticed that a group of three were wheeling a large covered cart up the ramp so I jumped out to take a look at what the heck was going on. It was full of crabs and they were not happy to see me. I asked them about all the crab and they were bragging they had 800!!!!
At this point I changed my tone and told them they are not leaving and sort of detained them as I called the cops. With rcmp on the way (figured they would arrive wayyyy before DFO), I then called fisheries and told them the situation. They arrived a little later and were very happy as they individuals were known to them. The best part is according to the rcmp, since they had about 400 crab already loaded in there brand new 3500 ram so that is also on the table to be seized as well as the boat.
It looks to me that they basically cleaned out any traps in the bay that they came across.
