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monoloco
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| Quote: | Originally posted by weebray
Looks like my original rib poking has provoked some thoughtful, albeit contentious at times, discussion. It has gone way beyond my intent but I'm not
sorry. I have absolutely no problem with sport fishing for fun or for food. I do have a problem with the orgy of overfishing. It even extends to
buying bait. The last panga trip I went on we bought way more live bait from the bait boat than we could ever use. Why? Because we had the cash and
were afraid we would run out. At the end of the day most of it was released - dead. That would be fine if I were the only ahole out there doing it
but I'm not. Overfishing a ALL levels is a problem here in Baja, even my most ardent detractors acknowledge that. There are limits but no one
monitors them. We need to monitor them ourselves. I'm going to try a little harder. I still go fishing but to me it's more like golf now, relaxing
entertainment. It makes no economic sense for me to fish for food. Every day the Bravo market has the freshest possible cleaned fillets for about 70
pesos a kilo. At the end of the day I'm sure a bunch of it gets thrown out. Enjoy your fishing trips, Release most of your catch and shop at your
local market for food. And, to answer another critic, if you can't identify fresh fish you aren't a fisherman - eat beef. |
Overfishing is a problem, but it's not coming from sports fishermen, sports fishermen adhere to the limits and are not what's
depleting the resource. I sincerely doubt that many sport fishermen who spend considerable money on their sport and much energy to process and
preserve their catch, then go to the trouble and expense to ship it home, would allow it to go to waste. I go out of my way to utilize every usable
part of the fish including the head and the roe, so that nothing goes to waste. You are way off base suggesting that sports fishermen are wasteful. It
just ain't so.
"The future ain't what it used to be"
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durrelllrobert
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Waste not, want not
Last time me and 2 buddies fished out of Loreto we spent most of the night cleaning, filleting and vacuum sealing a ice chest full of fillets (mostly
YT) and feed the remains to the gulls. The tree guys in the room next to us had 2 chests full of fish that they "were to tired to clean" and they
planned to just dump them on the side of the road on there way north. So we took their fish and stayed an extra day cleaning, filleting and vacuum
sealing theirs. Now we had so many fillets that there was no longer room for sufficient ice in our chest. Fortunately a nice lady (who's also a BN)
has large freezer in her garage and offered to let us use it so we froze all of the fillets overnight, picked them up the next AM and distributed the
excess to all our hungry friends when we got back to Ensenada.
Bob Durrell
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weebray
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Looks like you'll have plenty of bait for your future overfishing trips. And btw mono, you are just flat wrong, sorry. I need no further proof than
durell's post about the druids that were going to dump the fish in a ditch. This happens way more than you think.
Every beautiful beach in the world needs a few condo towers - NOT.
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Cypress
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Get a life wee bray. You're just trolling along. Just trolling along.
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willardguy
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he's just taking a break from picketing the el triunfo oxxo!
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