Another case where industry self-regulation failed. Who would have thunk it.

I, for one, am glad that they're fin-ished.

"These were fish pirates"

/arrrrrrr

Pollution is a problem and so is overfishing. It's not asinine to tackle both problems at once.

Asinine? Really?

Maybe if the investigation resulted in cops off their regular beat, but it was the Marine Police according to the article. It would seem to be in their purview.

God forbid we try to keep our natural resources renewable so our children can enjoy them by passing laws to prevent overfishing and subsequently enforcing those laws.

I hope those pirates get the carp kicked out of them.

Animatronik
Pollution is a problem and so is overfishing. It's not asinine to tackle both problems at once.

On the other hand, some homicides in Baltimore probably end up benefiting crabs in the Chesapeake Bay.

Asinine for the feds to bust down commercial poachers? Subby is either trolling or a Republican.

I don't see whats so asinine about this article

I didn't hear anything about how this hurt the supply and demand or how it endangered this fish specie. If anything, it sounds like these guys by-passed the bureaucracy saved a little on taxes and made a lot of extra dough by doing so.

Yet somehow, if these guys get prosecuted and arrested, the public has to pay by seeing higher prices of fish and less fish markets to go to which means less competition.

Whatever happened to just fining them, and calling it a day. Make them pay for the millions they stole in annual installments Or face some PMITA prison time. And since I'm assuming they're smart, they'll rather face the long fines, then prison time.

Hat Madder: Animatronik
Pollution is a problem and so is overfishing. It's not asinine to tackle both problems at once.

On the other hand, some homicides in Baltimore probably end up benefiting crabs in the Chesapeake Bay.

It's true that everyone has that going for them, even if they accomplish nothing in life they'll make good fish fertilizer some day.

And at some point, if you want to stop the killings, you have to put blue lights and cameras everywhere and spy on everyone, or just give up entirely.

/Oh wait they tried that already.

But that's not what smells fishy downtown.

/Where are my Wire pics?

i want pictures.

I was just arrested for molesting a cub scout so I am enjoying this thread.

Not asinine.

This is the only striped bass I care about.

pvd021: I didn't hear anything about how this hurt the supply and demand or how it endangered this fish specie. If anything, it sounds like these guys by-passed the bureaucracy saved a little on taxes and made a lot of extra dough by doing so.

Yet somehow, if these guys get prosecuted and arrested, the public has to pay by seeing higher prices of fish and less fish markets to go to which means less competition.
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Actually, yes, you DID hear how this hurt the supply and endangered this fish species (species is both singular AND plural, dolt) See, they took fish in excess of bag limits, in addition to being unlicensed. Bag limits aren't arbitrary numbers set up so the government can collect fines- they're the result of research that takes in consideration numbers of fish, reproduction rate, rate of predation, and number of licensed fishermen and their catch rate. They then determine a number of fish that can be caught that year that still leaves enough to reproduce for replacement the next year. When you start taking more than you're allowed, the numbers drop the next year, and it will go on until either (A) the price of that fish is prohibitively expensive or (B) the fish is extinct. and THAT will definitely hurt business, both for poachers and for those who obey the rules. It ALSO hurts the consumers, who will no longer get to have that kind of fish, and it hurts the environment, because whatever it was the species of fish ate can now grow out of control and screw up the bay for everything else living in it.

pvd021: I didn't hear anything about how this hurt the supply and demand or how it endangered this fish specie. If anything, it sounds like these guys by-passed the bureaucracy saved a little on taxes and made a lot of extra dough by doing so.

The bay is suffering from overfishing, has for years. There were rules that waterman - like some of my family members who fish out of the area - have to abide by. They don't like it but it beats losing their livelihood.

I've been out of Maryland for 13 years. I almost shiat myself when I was at Costco the other day and saw rockfish fillets going for more than the yellow fin tuna fillets. Something is seriously wrong.

Both approve of juking the stats.

These folks earn so little, I see a Dem run Bailout comming this way.

Yea, we need more Pork over here.

There is a side effect coming.

The ASFMC sets bag limits/quotas. Maryland has now grossly exceeded our quota for several, documented, years.

Maryland's commercial striper fishery may well be shut down as a result. Thus depriving honest watermen of a living.

As someone who fishes for stripers all the time, I'm getting a kick..

Seriously though, fark those guys. The striper population was dwindling until a lawsuit pushed the net boats further out of the Chesapeake Bay. They were netting stripers along with everything else and either selling them (illegally) or tossing them back injured and dying. The population has been recovering nicely in spite of asshats like the pirates in TFA.
Believe it or not, sport fishing is big industry for coastal states and in the northeast stripers (rock fish for those of you in the VA/delmarva peninsula area) are very popular. And delicious.

/pre-spawn starts soon
//Island Beach State Park, NJ, FTW

Almost all the homicides in Baltimore are worthless criminals killing each other.. I say give out more free guns !
And the stripers ate all the baby crabs, fish eat, thats what they do..

Throw the book at the bastards.

gibbon1: Asinine for the feds to bust down commercial poachers? Subby is either trolling or a Republican.

Subby believes that no other crimes should be investigated until all murders ever committed are solved, apparently.

bigbadideasinaction: gibbon1: Asinine for the feds to bust down commercial poachers? Subby is either trolling or a Republican.

Subby believes that no other crimes should be investigated until all murders ever committed are solved, apparently.

Either that or that all law enforcement resources should be applied to a single crime until it is resolved, and then on to the next one.

fizzygillespie: Both approve of juking the stats.

Where's the pic of Martin O'Malley, from back when he was mayor.

Really?

No one else put this up?

/leaves disappointed
//after arriving VERY late