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One of the anglers on board the boat yesterday caught a 5.5lb male lobster (which he kept) & I caught a female lobster in berry (which I returned). Now it has been suggested that you have to have a licence to keep a lobster? That you have to return any lobster caught after 30th Sept? That you can only retain 1 per boat? :confused2:
I can understand these regulations applying to somebody who takes a boat out, & lays 6 pots with the intention of catching crabs/lobsters, but does it also apply to 6 guys on a boat with rods & lines fishing for finned fish, & absolutely no intention of fishing for lobster/crabs?:confused2:
I know regulations rarely make sense to normal people, but in this instance it seems that they are contravening basic human rights :eeks:
5 guys with nothing in common (except being in the same boat) are prevented from keeping a lobster they catch, simply because one of them caught one first? Yet 6 guys, in 6 separate boats, can catch one each?
Plus does the April to Sept 30th ruling apply to accidental catching on rod & line? Or is it just to cover the deliberate targeting by recreational potting? :confused2:
I can understand these regulations applying to somebody who takes a boat out, & lays 6 pots with the intention of catching crabs/lobsters, but does it also apply to 6 guys on a boat with rods & lines fishing for finned fish, & absolutely no intention of fishing for lobster/crabs?:confused2:
I know regulations rarely make sense to normal people, but in this instance it seems that they are contravening basic human rights :eeks:
5 guys with nothing in common (except being in the same boat) are prevented from keeping a lobster they catch, simply because one of them caught one first? Yet 6 guys, in 6 separate boats, can catch one each?
Plus does the April to Sept 30th ruling apply to accidental catching on rod & line? Or is it just to cover the deliberate targeting by recreational potting? :confused2: