fishhog
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Mining for steel
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Well, not exactly hot off the press.
About 60 people showed, BCTV film crew, local newspaper reporter, and the chosen one, Mike, a DFO officer whose orders were to write a ticket for the one sockeye to be taken. The rain held off. Everyone discussing all the wrongs with the enforcement on the river. Upside down flown maple flags everywhere. Just as many fishers in the distance continuing to bottom bounce for springs. Some springs were landed.
Bill Ottway gives his speach, reciting the DFO mismanagement of this resource. Then, seven boats take to the water. Mike, the sacrificial DFO officer, reluntantly agrees to go along in one of the boats. The rain starts to pelt down. On a nearby small bar, a man yanks a sockeye out of the water and his son grabs it, then drops it then kicks it into the river. Where is a DFO officer when you need one?!Observing from a distance across the river, a sockey is hooked by one of the boats and the rod passed to the designated one to land it, I believe Mr. Ottway. I assume that Mike did his thing and ticketed the criminal.
The show moved back to this side. But by then a lot of people had left because of the rain.
It was a good protest, thanks to the people who showed, Chris Gadsden, Fred Helmer and others who organized it. Now, we wait and see how it is presented to the public by the media.
And yes, there were net marks on the his he caught!!!
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Is my Red Neck showing?
Politically correct..... What's that?
Netting = extinction
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IronNoggin
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Loc: Port Alberni, Vancouver Island...
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Charges against Bill Otway were DROPPED by the Fed's, upon fear that their Fearfully Correct mishandling of the Fraser's fisheries would become public knowledge. The TRAVESTY continues...
Concerned,
Nog
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There is no substitute for fishing sense, and if a man doesn't have it, verily,
he may cast like an angel and still use his creel largely to tansport sandwiches and beer."
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