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Grant aims to retrieve fishermens' lost crab pots

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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