Just about every month at its board meeting, the Virginia Marine Resources Commission takes up an agenda item labeled simply, “Offenders.”
It typically comes right after lunch, which means board members get to digest not just sandwiches and salads but an extra course of excuses from watermen convicted of breaking commercial fishing laws.
At nearly every meeting, at least one of the offenders argues against a license revocation or probation on the grounds that he was targeted by a marine policeman who was out to get him.
But as Tuesday’s session wrapped up with the cases of Glen S. Moore, Buddy G. Forrest and Clark R. Daniel, something unusual happened: Each of the men took his share of the blame for an October day on the Rappahannock River when they were cited for possessing too many too-small oysters.
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Kudo's to Buddy for not getting caught the last 58 years. Yup.
ReplyDeleteHow much time do ya get for Oysters ??
ReplyDeleteCrabs ??
Look, this is just one more example of Worthless Regulation keeping the common man Down. I hope that the changes we're seeing in Washington will sweep into Annapolis and wash all of these rules and regulations away. I don't need the Government telling me how to live, you know. I am an adult and can Do It On My Own and Make My Own Decisions!
ReplyDeleteThere are so many stupid rules that when DNR stops a waterman they can almost 100% of the time write some ticket for something.
ReplyDeleteThen people complain about crab prices... I wonder why.
Do they put yu on death row ???
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