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DelMarVa's Premier Source for News, Opinion, Analysis, and Human Interest Contact Publisher Joe Albero at alberobutzo@wmconnect.com or 410-430-5349
If you have a job and anything to lose, they will fine (tax) you to the max. If you are a deadbeat and won't or can't pay, have a record and nothing to lose, the courts let you walk or off with a slap on the wrist.
ReplyDeleteThis happens all over. It is because finding/punishing real criminals takes too much time and effort and money.
ReplyDeleteit's all about the cash and how they can get it out of you. DNR is a joke!
ReplyDeleteHer story sounds "fishy" to me. Ignorance of the law is no excuse (unless you're Hillary). Herring are ILLEGAL to catch and keep in Maryland, period. Putting them in the bucket "so my nieces and nephews could look at the different kinds of fish in the creek" just doesn't make sense. They could have looked at the fish when they were netted, and thrown them right back in, and no laws would have been broken. Putting them in the bucket showed "intent" to keep the fish, and the DNR was totally correct in citing them (hence the conviction and the fine). They got caught by a DNR officer that was looking for people taking Herring illegally. There are almost no herring left, and that is why they are now protected. And still, people will target, catch, and keep them (I guess until the last one has been caught). As herring are not a desirable fish to eat, most people that catch them to keep, are using them for bait to catch Rockfish illegally in the same creek that the herring came out of. I see it all the time during the spring herring spawning run. As a catch and release fisherman, I applaud the DNR officer's efforts at protecting the herring fishery that is so necessary for the ecosystem.
ReplyDelete9:45 apparently you have never gone fishing with kids.
ReplyDeletePutting them in a pail to look at is normal. We have done the same thing, at a lake when we were kids, and our fish lived and were returned.
DNR was overkill and killed the fish, which is typical of government.
Sorry but I believe her more than your BS DNR rant. - because that's what it sounds like you are. She never said herring in her story, so how do you know it was herring? POSER.
Ummm it says river herring right in the post....
DeleteHey 10:30 AM
ReplyDeleteWho is looking like the fool now? YOU ARE. It's called reading and comprehension.
sounds like a red herring.....
ReplyDeleteShould have gone for a jury trial. We have to use them to nullify stupid penalties when they don't match the "crime."
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