ASMFC Striped Bass Draft Addendum III - Plain English Summary

[OVERBORED]

I posted a short while back about a well known pirate getting busted for over limit bluefish.
To update, my sources tell me he went to court and plead to 4 fish over the limit and $450 fine.
You can say it's all about politics and you won't get an argument from me however when DEC makes a bust and the result of that is a $450 fine, it emboldens the poacher who will be back at it on the next tide and castrates enforcement officers as they don't have the backing of the penal system.

 

[hawk375]

yes regs

 

[longcast]

yes regs

Ok

 

[george]

@overboard The only answer is a fine that actually means something. Threaten someone with a 10k fine and they will absolutely think twice.

When you combine the odds of being caught with the small fine you may have to pay, a poacher has nothing to lose.

 

[longcast]

@overboard The only answer is a fine that actually means something. Threaten someone with a 10k fine and they will absolutely think twice.

When you combine the odds of being caught with the small fine you may have to pay, a poacher has nothing to lose.

Just a "part of doing business".

 

[OVERBORED]

Exactly. Let's be honest, fisheries violations are not the most glamorous of cases on a judge's docket.

 

[pequa1]

@overboard The only answer is a fine that actually means something. Threaten someone with a 10k fine and they will absolutely think twice.

When you combine the odds of being caught with the small fine you may have to pay, a poacher has nothing to lose.

change the law to allow, within reason, confiscation of equipment up to the "transportation used" to poach. Maybe not for a couple of bluefish but for twenty and thirty schoolies that we regularly see on the posts.

 

[Snapprhead27]

So a friend of mine was talking to DEC officers and they think its gonna be a slot limit again for 2026