Friday
Jan212011
Striper Slaughter in North Carolina
Friday, January 21, 2011 at 12:00AM 
Unbelievable.
Commercial fishermen trawling off of the Outer Banks of North Carolina are slaughtering thousands of striped bass in “culling” operations and tossing them overboard trying to keep larger stripers and remain under their 50 fish limit.
Both recreational anglers and smaller operation commercial fishermen have been aghast at the actions of the trawlers who are wiping out massive schools of stripers and discarding smaller fish to stay under the state 50 fish creel but maximize their profits.
LINK (The Charlotte Examiner)
The NC Division of Marine Fisheries (DMF) has issued a statement
tagged stripers forever in Conservation, Environment
stripers forever in Conservation, Environment
Reader Comments (1)
Pure fu----n greed. Even if they got caught doing this nothing would happen to these pieces of sh-------t. The fisheries people who are suppose to be enforcing the laws on this sort of situation are non exsistant. If a stronger stance isn't taken against commercial fishermen through enforcement there won't be any fish left. I believe people need to stop turning a blind eye to these overt wasting techniques used by commercial fishermen. This story is just the very tip of the iceberg.