In Port Elizabeth,Sherwood, a perlemoen processing

[jb2]

subaruseun wrote:

ThefishinMagician wrote:

Perlemoen etc that gets confiscated usually goes on auction and sold off. This sale comes with a license saying it is legal to trade.

90% of the time its the same poacher king pin guy who buys his confiscated Perlemoen back. He then gets his "license to trade" and alters they quota of 1000kg perlemoen to 10 000kg. Thereby shifting his illegal perlemoen alongside the legal stuff.

i have heard of this resale of perly, if you look at the reality, MCM is making a good dollar off someones else's poached catch. the circle of life?

does it stop? NO, it will exist for a long time to come.

looks like the one hand feeds the other...

Hi

The sale of confiscated perlie is now quite strictly controlled. I am not sure if anyone remembers the "perlie in transit" heist on Sir Lowry's Pass. That was a response to the change in the way confiscated perlie was handled.

There is now only one buyer and processor.

The proceeds do go to MCM/DAFF but that is a separate enquiry.

 

[barryfish]

nah JB nothing like the prince of darkness etc etc, just a good sense of humor and a measured and even approach to the netters, yeh they take resource, but then some of us here feel it is our right to take full quota, and often more every trip.

The netters problem is they do it in full open view. they do need a mouthpiece, or spout since the kettle was rubbed.

Let the ones that have NEVER EVER cut a undersized cobbie for bait, caught a cray outa season and used it for hottie bait, let them condem the trekkers. You will then have far fewer posts to answer.

I am as enviro and eco and green as the next oke, but the guys who slam the netters should (talking about pots and kettles) make sure it is rubbed shiny before commenting on the soot on the other

Seems like there is more poaching perlies since ban been lifted?

The anti trekkers should spend their time voicing objection and sending complaints and letters about the hake by catch and perlie poaching, oh but they don't see this, outta sight, outta mind, no effort made, the trekkers are simply a soft target like most law abiding sa citizens.

One last word ---- ""treknet"" let's check your response time.

Barry

 

[shockwave]

Hi jb2

I have fishing a long time......this was definately geel bek......I also found strange to see such a large amount of geelbek and on Stranfontein coast!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[jb2]

barryfish wrote:

nah JB nothing like the prince of darkness etc etc, just a good sense of humor and a measured and even approach to the netters, yeh they take resource, but then some of us here feel it is our right to take full quota, and often more every trip.

The netters problem is they do it in full open view. they do need a mouthpiece, or spout since the kettle was rubbed.

Let the ones that have NEVER EVER cut a undersized cobbie for bait, caught a cray outa season and used it for hottie bait, let them condem the trekkers. You will then have far fewer posts to answer.

I am as enviro and eco and green as the next oke, but the guys who slam the netters should (talking about pots and kettles) make sure it is rubbed shiny before commenting on the soot on the other

Seems like there is more poaching perlies since ban been lifted?

The anti trekkers should spend their time voicing objection and sending complaints and letters about the hake by catch and perlie poaching, oh but they don't see this, outta sight, outta mind, no effort made, the trekkers are simply a soft target like most law abiding sa citizens.

One last word ---- ""treknet"" let's check your response time.

Barry

Mmmmm over an hour from "treknet" to response. I am getting slower in my old age.

First things first:  Are you sure that you are  allowed to have an evenhanded approach?  An important part of the construction of your identity as a recreational angler is that you are obliged to hate certain people.

Your penance is to read 50 ski boat editorials.

Interestingly the full report of linefish bycatch in the hake trawl sector was posted a while back.

The tons of geelbek, kob etc that are caught in that fishery hardly raised an eyebrow.

 

 

[barryfish]

JB, sorry bru got busy. but sealine timed you, pretty good!

Will read the 50 editorials as penance. sorry do not know what I was thinking,,, step out of the expected rec angler role here tut tut.
Who am i kidding do not follow the conventional, been a rock in the stream all my life, no going to change now.

In reality with the amount of "natural" fish deaths occurring due to habitat destruction, by catch, dead zones and commercial and illegal harvesting, climate change etc, All created by people, the trekkers I think are a really small issue in relation.

Pity no eyebrows raised, they should be forced to sell the by catch for low cost to a licensed operator, so they do not make profits on this, that way perhaps they will look to limiting this by catch as much as possible, as who says with the tonnages reported the by catch is by catch and not targeted fishing.

Have great wknd

 

[fishalitis]

Hi guys

Chatted to one of the locals in Swartkops the other day. He said he knows some treknetters that operate in the area. He said they laid nets at Sundays river and pulled out hundreds of kilos of cob over three weeks. After that they said the nets were empty so said they move on to the next river.

 

[barryfish]

Are they legally allowed to trek there?

 

[Marthin]

no... Obesssion and others do try and rid the rivers in that region of what is going on there... His last post i think some chinese were involved.