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Grant aims to retrieve fishermens' lost crab pots

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John | 3:51 p.m. July 11, 2009
Sounds to me like the fishermen are littering - they should be fined for each pot they lose instead of being put to work at taxpayer expense to clean up their mess.
samhill | 8:53 a.m. July 12, 2009
Now, do I have this straight.

Crabmen lose thousands of traps every year in Oregon's $50 Million/year "most valuable single-species fishery". They have accumulated over the years to be a whale-killing, boat-snaring, "ghost fishing" menace for which WE, the taxpayers, must pay to fix????

I wonder what would happen if the oil/mining/lumber/etc. industries were to ask for the same help in cleaning up their messes?

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Stacks of derelict crab pots sit on the Port of Newport dock July 10, 2009 in Newport, Ore. Untold thousands of crab pots are lost in the ocean each year, and a $700,000 federal stimulus grant from NOAA is helping Oregon clean up some of them.

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