Tuesday
Feb082011
Commercial trawlers kill thousands more striped bass off the Outer Banks
Tuesday, February 8, 2011 at 12:01AM
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.
there is no excuse for this kind of dumping. DMF needs to figure this out real quick
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.
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I am tweeting it now.
B
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 ?