This is cool. NOT!

[Finster]

Came across this. Crazy IMOP that this should be allowed....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAbhE-tqNNc

[Michael Vezzosi]

Is that really legal in NC? WTF, over? C'mon that [censored] can't possibly be legal! Limits just a few miles north and this? Really! WTF? Cool as a freakin' cucumber...in your arse!!! This cannot be legit! Part II.

[htillman]

Go watch them catch mullets on a NorEaster in E. NC. Take nets out with beach launched skiffs, pull em in with tractors. Layer with salt in 50 gallon buckets. Eat later.

[Finster]

Hey Mike, don't hold back just say what you think.

I hear ya though. Thats some crazy [censored].

[Ikan Besar]

Oh, you'd all be surprised if you saw what all is legal in terms of fishing in NC. I've seen them bring in the nets countless times and the species (now dead) of bycatch they toss back just baffles the mind. Large sea trout, red drum, etc, all so they can catch a few "spot".

The commercial fishing interests are so deeply in bed with the politicians (Marc Basnight seems to get a lot of credit in this dept.) that a number of people I know who are avid anglers have sold their coastal houses due to how severe an impact the inshore commercial netting has done.

If anyone wants to see how NOT to manage a fishery, cruise on over to North Carolina!

[Finster]

Your exactly right. They've decimated our brown shark stocks as well. They whined up in shark-fin soup over in china. So now their in decline here.

I found that funny that their saying eat local fish support the commerical fishermen, when I know for a fact that most of those fish get shipped out over seas.

What a bunch of bullshit!

[beradtke]

stuff like this irks me to no end. thats not fishing thats raping and pilliaging the ocean. thoses "fisherman" should get are just damaging it so others dont have a chance at catching a fish the traditional way.

[rhody98]

Not pretty......Peter Mathiessen wrote a book some 20 yrs back called "Mens Lives" - the whole book is about several generations of fishermen netting bass like this on Long Island beaches from the 1930's on till it was banned in the 70's...launching dories into the surf and hauling net in w/trucks....a pretty good read as I recall.

[Ikan Besar]

another book to see where poor management leads is called "Cod", and based on the Newfoundland cod fishery in days gone by. A small book but a rather sobering read.

[Bigshrimpin]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAPtmdJvwNc&NR=1