posted by Deeogee on Mar 31
A little bit ago there was a huge lobster bust, where some local people were harvesting thousands of lobsters illegally from illegal lobster houses which they built, some of which were in sanctuaries where lobstering is not allowed. Theoretically building lobster houses to harvest them, might be more ecologically friendly then deploying thousands of traps but as of now it’s illegal.
Lots of time poachers are small timers who come down from Miami etc and usually the general consensus is throw the book at them etc. But this time it was local guys some of whom are well known and looked up to charter captains. They are also white, which I know is opening another can of worms, but let’s be honest it’s the South.
So reading online there is various talk about what great guys they are, and how they just made a mistake (apparently repeatedly for years at a nice profit). The same people who would want to castrate some guy from Miami taking a few short snapper want to you to now give these other guys a chance.
The whole thing is kind of amusing, two of the guys at least on the surface seem to be involved in successful fishing charter businesses. How dumb is that. You are making good money legally taking people fishing and on the side you are risking everything to poach lobsters. Greed knows no bounds.
Tags: Key West | lobsters | poaching | shady stuff
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