Stop drag net fishing

I've been a commercial fisherman (trolled) on our west coast. Many times have watched draggers with a specific species target, empty their net on the deck and using a fish pew (shovel handle with a bent spike on its end) spear all of the usually dead non- target species (halibut ect.) and throw them away.currently living near Vancouver in Howe sound, we have so- called shrimp draggers ( mostly Vietnamese fishermen) dragging for shrimp/ prawns. Have taken a boat out and watched them pull in their nets. The net end is a sock about 40 feet long, completely full of dead fish to grow away, though watching them with a spotting scope see them loading these fish into the boat for illegal sales.
 Here our cod stocks are threatened, so there is no sport fishery for them. Yet these draggers kill them by the thousands legally.Minister of fisheries says that this is a historic fishery period.Besides a massive kill of non- target species, the damage they do to the sea floor is sickening. Instead of marine growth and young fish habitat, the bottom looks like a plowed barren field with the use of under water cameras.most sport fishers have quit setting prawn traps now as there's almost nothing left to catch, except for the draggers that cover vast distances with their evil drag nets.
thers already enough pressure on remaining stocks by sports fishermen. If the so- called politician/ minister cared about the health of fish stocks, dragging should be illegal a long time ago. Having grown up here since 1953, it sickens me to see such rape and abuse of our waters and those that live in them.
 Soon the west coast fisheries will follow the government sanctioned extinction of the east coast cod fishery, all a bloody sad sickening business.Years ago, when the corporate powers wanted to do salmon fish farms here, our government fisheries invited the Norweigans to talk about their fish farms.They said that if we allowed salmon farms, that they would kill our wild stocks. So now corporate versed always wins and our wild stocks are kin their end days, soon the only salmon available will be the farm crap. Grey flesh painted red by dyes in the farm food, flesh so mushy that they must be shipped alive in pens of water.Full of antibiotics and lord knows what else to get these salmon clone lookalikes a to market and increase corporate profits.
 All such a horrible sick greedy business who use the bought politicians to help them achieve their ends and kill any competition, wild or otherwise. 

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