881 pound tuna taken by fish and game officers

[Offshore Madness]

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/man-catches-881-pound-tuna-seized-feds-194650751.html

[Hunter 2]

rules are rules..

[NJ Guy]

yeah it sucks but within the rules i guess when he bough the tuna permit he should have read up about it 

[gymrat987654321]

I was about to post this, you beat me to it.

[Bucktail]

  A commercial fisherman should know the regs.

[Hotrod]

 

[NJ Guy]

i mean come on i heard he bough 15 tuna permits over the years.... never thought to read it?  lol

[Offshore Madness]

I understand rules are rules and yes he broke them and desserved to have the fish taken but How crappy is that feeling you get an 800+ pound tuna,get it in the boat,to the scales and BAM johnny lawman swoops it from you......

[Offshore Madness]

ok here more of this story.It turns out that the New Bedford, Massachusetts, commercial scallop fisherman who was forced to give up the 881-pound bluefin tuna he accidentally caught in a net last week has a history of fisheries violations.
In November and August, 2011, Carlos Rafael, an influential New Bedford businessman and New England fisheries industry leader, was busted for having hidden compartments on 2 of his vessels. The Coast Guard estimated that just one of the boats could have illegally generated $3 million this year in illegal scallops.

Raphael owns New Bedford’s largest fleet, estimated at more than 2 dozen active groundfish and scallop boats. He also serves on the board of the Gloucester-based Northeast Seafood Coalition.
res more to this story...

[Kenny]

Hidden compartments hmmmmmm