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Tuesday
Feb082011

Commercial trawlers kill thousands more striped bass off the Outer Banks 

Photo: Jeffrey Weeks

WTF is up with the North Carolina DMF?

Taking advantage of a NC Division of Marine Fisheries (DMF) decision to allow them back into the ocean, commercial striped bass trawlers off of Oregon Inlet again killed and discarded thousands of striped bass today in a tragic and wasteful repeat of last month’s fish kill.

LINK (Via: The Charlotte Examiner)

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Reader Comments (5)

What a waste of life.

February 8, 2011 | Unregistered CommenterChristopher Severin&2

there is no excuse for this kind of dumping. DMF needs to figure this out real quick

February 8, 2011 | Unregistered CommenterDarbDorf

There is only one thing these pricks understand, hit their bank account hard, fine these guys right out of business and get them off the water.

February 8, 2011 | Unregistered Commenterdiamond b

For anyone who wishes to take this viral, here's the bit.ly
http://bit.ly/WTFisupwiththeNorthCarolinaDMF
I am tweeting it now.
B

February 8, 2011 | Unregistered CommenterB.

Boat captain said 3 or 4 thousand fish supposedly spilled out of his nets but the limit is fifty can someone explain that logic to me ?

February 8, 2011 | Unregistered CommenterTg

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