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Originally posted by AuntyM:


There are, in my mind, more than enough reasons to ban gillnets throughout the US. They have been banned for overfishing, being navigational hazards etc. Can you say ghost net?

I think we'd fair better with a national campaign aimed at lawmakers using the RFA and their east coast base. Two birds with one stone.

I mean.... we really don't want these nets here regardless of who's using them, right?
Both Florida and California have banned gill nets in their waters and both sates have had higher populations of all fish that where targeted by nets since they where banned. You'd think that the government, or at least the WDFW, would see this and take it into consideration. But have they? No.

As I've been meaning to ask this. I seem to remember a few years ago that some law was passed that did bann gill nets and the indians and others where supposed to revert to mesh nets that kepted the fish alive, or atleast cutback on killing the fish, and this way fish selectively. I have not seen this happen. Was the law shot down or just not enforced?
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