Over Fishing Rosslare Area

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JimH
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Re: Over Fishing Rosslare Area

#61 Post by JimH »

Ahhhh sure whats another year - 2011 not quite over yet and 2012? Well like the last quarter century nothing changed......yet! Same o Same o

Had a call this morning about a guy whos' lure got caught in 16 feet of water yet he could see the leader - they promptly discovered 2.5 miles of net ACTIVELY fishing.....
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Re: Over Fishing Rosslare Area

#62 Post by MackDublin »

Jim, great news that the net was detected but very depressing to think nets of that lenght are being used to decimate stocks.
Is there any more info on this, east coast or south, was the net recovered, was anybody even caught :(
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Re: Over Fishing Rosslare Area

#63 Post by sparkey+1 »

Well at least the net was destroyed ( I hope ) but discraseful to see.....
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Re: Over Fishing Rosslare Area

#64 Post by fisherboy »

the same thing is going on in east cork big trawlers netting along the shore,i heard one boat had over 10 boxes of bass for a week last winter,,,,true or false i don't know maybe hear say?

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