Two more nets containing striped bass found

[valhalla]

I hate these nets - wholesale death of the fish OUT OF SEASON!   

www.baltimoresun.com/sports/bs-sp-rockfish-poaching-0208-20110208,0,3895241.story

baltimoresun.com
Two more nets containing striped bass found
Natural Resources Police continue finding submerged nets despite season being closed
By Candy Thomson, The Baltimore Sun

11:01 AM EST, February 8, 2011

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Natural Resources Police patrol boats found two more illegal fishing nets Monday in the waters south of Kent Island and seized another half-ton of striped bass.

The first net was hauled out at 2 p.m. near Poplar Island. The 600-yard net, which officers estimated to be in the water since last year, contained "a couple of rockfish that were released alive and 200 to 300 horseshoe crabs," said Sgt. Art Windemuth, NRP spokesman.

The second net, pulled in the evening, was about a mile south of the illegal nets found off Bloody Point last week. The 1,200-yard submerged net contained 1,159 pounds of striped bass, which were sold at market," Windemuth said.

Patrol boats continue to troll the area around Kent Island and the Choptank and Chester rivers with grappling hooks.

"We're still looking," said Windemuth. "I wouldn't be surprised to find more. We're continuing to receive tips on our Catch-A-Poacher hot line and are aggressively following up tips. With the public's help, we can get a handle on this."

So far NRP officers have recovered nearly three miles of illegal nets, approaching last year's total.

Last week, the Department of Natural Resources offered a reward of more than $7,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the poachers responsible for netting more than 10 tons of striped bass in a two-day period. The state also closed the commercial gill net season to ensure that Maryland does not exceed its February quota.

The hot line is 800-635-6124.

candus.thomson@baltsun.com

Copyright © 2011, The Baltimore Sun

[MAK]

   Thank God they saved these creatures but so many go unfound. Pure greed! 

[Donna]

It's bad out there in the waters! Carelessness!!!

[valhalla]

It's bad out there in the waters! Carelessness!!!

No, Donna - this isn't carelessness, this is cheating, greed, and crooked people.  Selfish and criminal.

[Dot_Forrester]

I suspect we're reading only a small portion of the greedy wholesale slaughter in the oceans.  This particular fish got me to wondering ... on the Jersey shore where I spent my childhood summers, these fish were called "stri ped" bass (2 syllables). Is that the common pronunciation everywhere else? My uncle used to tell a story about uncovering a German spy in their midst during World War II when the spy said he was from Forked River NJ (pronounced as the 2-syllable "For ked River" but the spy said it as a one syllable word, so my uncle knew that this person wasn't really from that area.

Dot in PA

[Donna]

I suspect we're reading only a small portion of the greedy wholesale slaughter in the oceans.  This particular fish got me to wondering ... on the Jersey shore where I spent my childhood summers, these fish were called "stri ped" bass (2 syllables). Is that the common pronunciation everywhere else? My uncle used to tell a story about uncovering a German spy in their midst during World War II when the spy said he was from Forked River NJ (pronounced as the 2-syllable "For ked River" but the spy said it as a one syllable word, so my uncle knew that this person wasn't really from that area.

Dot in PA

Yup, it's Fork-ed alright....weird when people say Forked!

[Tokira]

I suspect we're reading only a small portion of the greedy wholesale slaughter in the oceans.  This particular fish got me to wondering ... on the Jersey shore where I spent my childhood summers, these fish were called "stri ped" bass (2 syllables). Is that the common pronunciation everywhere else? My uncle used to tell a story about uncovering a German spy in their midst during World War II when the spy said he was from Forked River NJ (pronounced as the 2-syllable "For ked River" but the spy said it as a one syllable word, so my uncle knew that this person wasn't really from that area.

Dot in PA

That fills in a bit of info for me...  In Northern New England, where I grew up, Stri ped had two syllables, ie: a Stri ped T-Shirt, or a Stri ped Cat.
When I got to Virginia, people looked at me funny when I said it that way, so I guess the boundary is somewhere not too far South of New Jersey 
Carol
now in WV

[valhalla]

I suspect we're reading only a small portion of the greedy wholesale slaughter in the oceans.  This particular fish got me to wondering ... on the Jersey shore where I spent my childhood summers, these fish were called "stri ped" bass (2 syllables). Is that the common pronunciation everywhere else? My uncle used to tell a story about uncovering a German spy in their midst during World War II when the spy said he was from Forked River NJ (pronounced as the 2-syllable "For ked River" but the spy said it as a one syllable word, so my uncle knew that this person wasn't really from that area.

Dot in PA

Yes, Rockfish and Strippers (Striped Bass) are all one in the same.  They breed in the brackish waters of the upper Chesapeake, Hudson River, and other tidal tributaries.  I used to laugh because the fish we weren't allowed keep in May were the same fish off the Jersey Shore in July and at that time keepable.  Size is set each year by each state, although they are generally within the same 18 to 36 inch range for anglers. 

I say For ked River, too, although I grew up in Northern NJ.  I think that comes from friends that grew up in the area of For ked River and I just adopted that pronuciation.

So, anybody know what chop meat is?