Richmond crab processing factory fined more than $110K for obstructing inspection

[Rain City]

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/richmond-crab-processing-factory-fined-more-than-110k-for-obstructing-inspection-other-violations-1.5984662

 

[Ringo]

There’s the entire supply chain of crab and prawn poaching under DFO’s nose and they barely do anything about it. What we get to hear in the media every once in a while is just a small portion of what happens everyday and deliberately gets ignored by DFO.

 

[Captain PartyMarty]

Just have to search Facebook market place. Nobody fears DFO

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[Captain PartyMarty]

Here is another fully legal operation I am sure

LIVE FRESH CRAB - general for sale - by owner

Fresh live crab caught everyday. All large full of meet and of course all legal size. Price is 8 dollars for regular crab amd ten for large. You buy ten large get one free.. please and questions...

vancouver.craigslist.org

 

[wildmanyeah]

Well there criminals and there good At what they do.

not to mention on an area of few million population you can count all the DFO officers using your fingers and toes.

 

[hippaisland]

Here is another fully legal operation I am sure

LIVE FRESH CRAB - general for sale - by owner

Fresh live crab caught everyday. All large full of meet and of course all legal size. Price is 8 dollars for regular crab amd ten for large. You buy ten large get one free.. please and questions...

vancouver.craigslist.org

That first photo the crab doesn’t even look legal if you look where the tape starts... unreal.

 

[Ringo]

Well there criminals and there good At what they do.

not to mention on an area of few million population you can count all the DFO officers using your fingers and toes.

DFO’s enforcement capacity has been an issue under different governments and not much has been done to mitigate the issue. What frustrates me even more is that we the sporties get painted as a risk to the resource by NGOs and FNs while the poachers keep depleting the resource and get away with it most of the time.