"Damn, we haven't seen a redfish all day?"

[Vlap]

I saw Redfish for sale at Publix the other day. Said product of Mexico.

They farm raise them in Texas also.

and Louisiana.

[fishshooter99]

I think the penalty needs to be enough that it wouldn't be worth the risk. The morons that do that sort of thing are not going to be swayed by ethics or a slap on the wrist.

[MrSpectaculous]

I'd rather no inshore fish be on the market. Let people catch their own.

[seeinred]

That looks like a "chunk net". A cast net with no brail lines or lead weights that seine netters use or people throwing around structure (no brails makes it easier to unsnag). The lead line has a lead core, you can see where the shots of lead begin and end by the lines on the lead line.

Depending on the mesh size, that would still be a legal net at 20x20 and not exactly responsible for most of the illegal by catch gill nets account for. Now, most chunk nets have illegal mesh sizes however. The idea is that the larger mesh size will allow the smaller mullet to escape and the larger (normally red roe) mullet to be snagged. Kind of like when you christmas tree your bait net on tiny pilchards.

My guess, if it is in fact the kind of net I described, is that they hung the net on the oysters and instead of trying to untangle it they cut their loses and salvaged the hand line from it.


Edit- just read the part about the floats... Weird. Sounds like some scumbags who didn't know what they were doing.

[1okbyme2]

'nuther good use for a flame thrower...