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Jenni
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 Posted: Mon, 13th Nov 2006 20:43 Post subject: A question about fishing. |
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Okay I'm watching Beyond River Cottage, a cookery program. Anyway something I've always wondered is when fishermen put lobster baskets and whelk baskets and stuff. How come other people don't come and empty them before the owner gets a chance.
I've always wondered that. Yes I need to get a life 
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| Posted: Mon, 13th Nov 2006 21:40 Post subject: |
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Jenni
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| Posted: Mon, 13th Nov 2006 22:06 Post subject: Re: A question about fishing. |
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Because its....wrong??  |
Breaking into peoples homes is wrong, rape is wrong. Even mugging old women is wrong. Yet no one empties fishermens baskets. Weird that. |
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Esel_Gesi
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| Posted: Mon, 13th Nov 2006 22:10 Post subject: |
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it's illegal.
at least thats what I learned from that seinfeld episode.
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| Posted: Mon, 13th Nov 2006 23:35 Post subject: Re: A question about fishing. |
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SycoShaman
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| Posted: Wed, 15th Nov 2006 14:17 Post subject: |
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| pistolshrimp wrote: | We don't have lobster here, but we have crab and prawn traps all over the place.
I personally don’t touch other people crab traps altho I am tempted. I touched someone's crab float and I chickened out. I am afraid that they are watching on shore or something. That is considered really rude. You are out in the open too and if the commercial guys do see you stealing, plus they have friends out there watching, and radios, and fast boats, I think it would cause a serious altercation and there are no police to break up fights.
Those commercial guys, that's their lively hood. So I think it is a respect thing.
But it does happen. I know a guy who has a dredging business. He digs out the ground to make moorage for boats. He has raided traps before. He takes maybe 10 crab or so big ones for his personal eating. So ya sometimes it happens.
I know a few times my rec. trap has been raided in Howe Sound by picnic people. I think I knew what family did it because they were eating them. 
I go to private docks now and crab where you really are not allowed to. It is because of boat traffic, ropes caught in the props. Tones of crab there because of it. I tie it to the dock and pull it up when no one is looking. Even if people there saw they wouldn’t say anything.
You would have to be a theif with a boat (boats cost money). Big enough to hold crab/lobster if you wanted to make serious money off raiding traps. Your boat would get a rep. People talk, especially at docks. I think you would arrive one morning to a underwater boat. |
Your a crab catcher? sounds funny to me because im childish 
Do you eat crab often? I havent had crab in a very very long time. Cant remember if i like it or not. Does it taste like lobster when you smother it in butter and its hot? |
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