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Old 03-08-2016, 12:58 PM   #3138
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Originally Posted by stubones99 View Post
I saw a show one time about northwest fishing, and the purse seiner pulled in so many fish it couldn't get the net clear of the water. They put a pump into the net and pumped the fish into a huge 'tender' to haul the catch to shore for processing. The narrator said something about regulations of the fishing boat size didn't cover the size of the tender. So the tender was doing much of the work, and the little boats were pulling the nets.
That's cheating. Lol.

Some of the european regs force trawlers to dump perfectly good fish back into the sea if they have exceeded their quota: criminal waste of food.
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