Hi,

I came back to TFF tonight to find an article I read here recently about sharks being cut up and left to rot at a boat ramp. I searched around and could not locate..anyone remember this thread?

I came back to read because I saw this article this morning about the redfish catch being down 75% in parts of North Carolina where indiscriminant use of gill nets has begun to take a heavy toll on game fish species. There a sad video accompanying the article of a gillnet full of dead redfish and black drum. Watching the video will make you sick..you can hear the disgust in the captain documenting the kill. See this LINK.

And the fine for this slaughter was $35.

Hi all,

Captain Matt Wirt has followed up with a second video showing how gill nets cover the waters around Carolina Beach, NC. You can see where the 300 foot long nets are placed end to end in one foot of water so that fish have no escape. He shot footage of what often happens to the bycatch or "discards" as they are tossed. A good video showing what happens every day in his neighborhood. See the video at the bottom of this page.