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re: Pogy boats dumped 850,000 fish off Louisiana coast
Posted on 9/21/23 at 10:21 am to LSUFanHouston
Posted on 9/21/23 at 10:21 am to LSUFanHouston
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Help me understand this.
The nets are killing the fish?
Don't the boats want the fish to come on board alive? Or is it ok if they come on board dead?
And why are they dumping fish? Why would they catch fish simply to dump them back in the water?
The nets are capturing ALL fish not just the targeted pogys. This includes a shite ton of redfish. They cannot survive the net capture and time on deck (out of water). They dump the dead fish back over. Fisherman see it all the time out on the water but it's only apparent to the general public when it all ends up on a shoreline due to a busted net.
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Posted on 9/21/23 at 10:21 am to dewster
Instead of the OT banding together to vote for some dog contest, maybe we can put efforts towards something useful like this
Posted on 9/21/23 at 10:24 am to Bayou_Tiger_225
We need to start going whale wars on them.
Posted on 9/21/23 at 10:25 am to LSUFanHouston
Because Louisana has no wanton waste laws. As long as the boat is not in possession of the fish, ie. in a cooler, they can throw every dead redfish they catch back overboard with no repercussions.
Posted on 9/21/23 at 10:26 am to dgnx6
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Why does LA allow people to rape our resources?
The vast majority of LA people are unawares. Pogy boats are major political donors to keep ruling powers approving or denying proposed law which would favor the pogy industry. These are foreign owned entities and shouldn't be allowed to operate within any U.S. state water.
Louisiana allows this to take place because of how easy it is to toss a politician a few bones and have them do their bidding. It's the same as any 3rd world locale with bountiful natural resources. They get pimped and raped by foreign entities who care not for tomorrow or the detrimental effect of current operations.
Posted on 9/21/23 at 10:27 am to Mr Breeze
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Senator Robert Hensgens of district 26 in Abbeville has been the main opponent of these bills. He's the pogie boat industries protector and I imagine it has to do with $$$$ going into his campaign coffers.
Their plant south of Abbeville does provide a decent amount of jobs to that area, so that could be his motivation. That being said - that industry is fricking the fish habitat in the gulf
Posted on 9/21/23 at 10:28 am to Nado Jenkins83
quote:
We need to start going whale wars on them.
Posted on 9/21/23 at 10:33 am to LSUFanHouston
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If there redfish limits, and the pogy boats are catching redfish in their nets even as a by-product, how are the boats / pilots / companies not being hit with fines and penalties for exceeding redfish limits?
Bc they have a 20% by product exemption
I think it’s 20%
Posted on 9/21/23 at 10:34 am to White Bear
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This N La baw gives no fricks.
The CCA dude was on 1130 KWKH yest crying about muh dead fish.
Pretty trashy stance for you to have IYAM.
Posted on 9/21/23 at 10:37 am to dewster
Outdoor Board
Posted on 9/21/23 at 10:40 am to White Bear
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This N La baw gives no fricks
That's because you're a dumbarse. A shite ton of tourism dollars and fishing liscenses sold are due to people coming to Louisiana to fish for redfish. This benefits you and all other Louisiana citizens. This even more so benefits you if you enjoy any sort of hunting or fishing. That can all go away with decline/collapse of the coastal fishery which absolutely can and will happen
This post was edited on 9/21/23 at 10:50 am
Posted on 9/21/23 at 10:47 am to CHEDBALLZ
There is most definitely a wanton waste law
Posted on 9/21/23 at 10:49 am to CHEDBALLZ
double post
This post was edited on 9/21/23 at 10:50 am
Posted on 9/21/23 at 10:50 am to LSUFanHouston
quote:They're huge nets that a couple of boats set out in a circle around the school of pogeys. Then they pull the nets tight, trapping everything in there and the big mother ship comes to pull everything aboard. Hundreds of thousands of fish crammed together in a net depletes all the oxygen in that water, so the fish suffocate to death before they even get pulled out of the water.
Help me understand this.
The nets are killing the fish?
quote:They don't care. The target species is all going on ice and to a processing plant anyway to be turned into fish oil and pet food
Don't the boats want the fish to come on board alive? Or is it ok if they come on board dead?
quote:Dumping the unwanted bycatch. Or in the case from Holly Beach a while back, they cut the nets loose because there was so much weight in there that the mother ship wasn't able to pull the net out of the water
And why are they dumping fish? Why would they catch fish simply to dump them back in the water?
Posted on 9/21/23 at 10:51 am to Saskwatch
quote:the only benefit is to LDWF to enable more harassment upon the rec fishermen. I don’t know what a pogy is but it’s clear what’s going on. LDWF ain’t on your nor my side.
. A shite ton of tourism dollars and fishing liscenses sold are due to people coming to Louisiana to fish for redfish. This benefits you and all other Louisiana citizens. This even more so benefits you if you enjoy any sort of hunting or fishing. That can all go away with decline/collapse of the coastal fishery which absolutely can and will happen
Posted on 9/21/23 at 10:52 am to White Bear
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. I don’t know what a pogy is but it’s clear what’s going on
I don't know anything about the topic but it's clear what's going on.
Nice
Posted on 9/21/23 at 10:57 am to Saskwatch
quote:He also tried to push a regulation in Congress that would have required offshore rigs to have a work boat nearby. The marine industry are his biggest contributors.
Jeff Landry is in bed with these foreign owned scumbags. All other candidates said they'd push for stronger restrictions on the pogy/menhaden fishing industry.
Posted on 9/21/23 at 10:58 am to Deactived
quote:lol it’s a simple concept I needn’t be a fisheries biologist or coastal fisher person to figure it out.
I don't know anything about the topic but it's clear what's going on. Nice
Posted on 9/21/23 at 10:59 am to Limitlesstigers
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He also tried to push a regulation in Congress that would have required offshore rigs to have a work boat nearby.
What's the rationale for this? Those rigs get serviced by OSV's don't they?
Posted on 9/21/23 at 10:59 am to Limitlesstigers
On a good East wind my childhood home was within smelling distance of that Pogy plant South of Abbeville in Intracoastal City.
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