It is bad enough that we have poachers, we do not need this sort of thing to be legally sanctioned. I remember a few years ago in the Stonington area, the state police nabbed some foreigners, of Asian extraction, with a load of illegal striped bass off interstate 95. They had seined up a load of bass and tried to sneak away with the entire catch, shorts and all. They were in such a rush to make their escape they never even bothered to remove any of the fish from the seine. They just dumped the fish and seine in the boat and tried to make their getaway. Their boat was so heavily loaded down that their boat trailer broke down on interstate 95. They were caught only because the state police stopped to see what the problem was. All of their equipment was to be impounded but the bastards manage to remove their outboard motor and stash it away before the police came on to the scene. The trailer was broken, and the boat did go up for auction but it was a piece of junk as well. Basically all they got was their wrists slapped and a small fine as they probably cried they did not know, in broken English, that they were breaking the law. |