exceeding bag limits

Submitted: Monday, Jan 26, 2009 at 17:49
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just come back from a four day fishing trip with the son and his wife. Last stop was at pt Clinton for two days crabbing. got up first morning and out we went, spent about two hours raking to get our bag limit.(40 each). as we could not catch any more crabs we through a line in.
while doing this over about six hours my son notice that the same guy had been coming and going the whole time, back and forth.
My son said that every time he gets his forty crabs he takes the bin back and empties it then out for another load. Didn't see him throw any back, so would say he kept any size he caught. the next day the same thing, back and forth. we estimated he must of got over 500 crabs just in the time we were there.
Son and i went up and chatted the bloke but didn't8 get a good reception. this goes on all the time, according to one of the guys in the shack next to where we were staying.
I know that the fisheries inspectors cant be everywhere but maybe a fishing liecence may be the answer. then we could channel the funds into more inspectors.
cheers shane.
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