Abalone siezure
Submitted by jeremy-j on Fri, 2012-12-21 08:06
Was sent this just now.
http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/newshome/15690402/biggest-haul-of-abalone-seized/
Still is disapointing that people have that take as much as you can mentality.
Jorie
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wow that is so many!!! i
wow that is so many!!! i dont even know a spot were i can get 10 let alone that many.
Willlo
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Yeah that is taking the P*#s.
Yeah that is taking the P*#s. Remember a mob from Collie were doing the same thing out of Hamelin Bay, think they lost house ,cars ,boats the lot.Hopefully same will happen to these losers.
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Wow
Wow that is so dissapointing to see. But good on the person who took details and dobbed them in, not many ppl do in todays environment incase of repriasals(SP)
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WSHN4FSHN
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I can never understand how
I can never understand how people can have such disregard for the law and a lack of repect for the fishery that we all love. These people deserve to be taken to the cleaners to teach them some life principles!! It's not even a few over the limit either - nearly 500!!! Fine them $250k and put it towards research, 6 months jail and make an absolute example out of them!!! Hopefully others with a similar attitude to them take notice but sadly in the world we live in there will always be people who couldn't care less.
Burley it and they will come.
championruby
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Even more disapointing to
Even more disapointing to see it was in the area that got decimated by the heat wave. Would really impact on the ability of that area to bounce back in the next few years. I agree with the other comments, throw the book at the bastards
Auslobster
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How many others?
Makes you wonder how long this has been going on for before they were caught...and how many others are still doing it and getting away with it
Camo.W
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What Bastards!
These are the type of wankers that are giving the greens and labour government ammo for their marine parks. A wonder if they were born here or immigrants?
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quadfisher
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Intent
You dont take that many undersize and over the limit and not know what your doing is wrong.
Who where they going to sell it to ?, the people who would buy it are as guilty as the pillagers
No market , less insentive to do it, and yeah I really hope they sting them , as these sort of idiots are going to make the fishery
closure longer. Might have been better to follow them for longer and blow the whole illegal trade open.
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Willlo
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Dunno if you guys followed
Dunno if you guys followed Abalone Wars on Fox ,but in that series it was pointed out that many of the poachers were linked with organized crime syndicates. Maybe the same over here?
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meglodon
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take 'em to the cleaners
take the boat the car the house and bang'em with the max fine these sods have no doubt been doing it for some time and been making a few quid, let the law show them that crime doesn't pay to the guy who rang fisheries well done thank you so much you have done a great service to all fishermen/women
, to the DoF great stuff guys gives you a bit of faith in the reporting line now we can all see that the phone calls are in fact acted on (i had doubts)
look forward to seeing their names in big print when they go to court