Posted on 07/05/2014 4:44:38 PM PDT by nickcarraway
I have never eaten a spiny lobster. Maybe it is not in great demand in the states. Since the Chinese will eat any thing that swims, walks, slithers, flies etc., maybe that is his niche market. Since we are being flooded with Chinese goods, let’s make this a two way street. Of course that’s not the liberal goal.
Perhaps related to this.
Spiny Lobster Fishing Ban to Come into Effect 1 March
28 February 2013
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - In order to protect the species during its period of reproduction, the Dominican Republic has announced a ban on spiny lobster fishing from the 1 March to 30 June 2013.
The executive director of the Dominican Council of Fisheries and Aquaculture (CODOPESCA), the Ministry of Agriculture, Francisco Frias, issued a notice notifing all involved in fishing and marketing, that during this period the capture, processing, possession of meat or mass marketing of any spiny lobster species is prohibited.
He reports that the ban was certified by the General Secretariat of the Central American Integration System (SICA), under Regulation OSP-02-09, for the regional management of the fishery of the spiny lobster (Panulirus argus).
Mr Frias warns every fisherman and / or owner of fishing boats to store all fishing gear used to catch lobster, including lobster traps and seines, out of the water.
A failure to comply with the ban will lead to a fine or imprisonment.
- See more at: http://www.thefishsite.com/fishnews/19599/spiny-lobster-fishing-ban-to-come-into-effect-1-march#sthash.gpfsVswz.dpuf
So, its a seasonal thingy?
They caught the lobsters out of season?
Sorry, I am 2.3 sheets to the winds..
I await comments from LEonn Panetta, John sKerry and Ted Danson.
That bastard!
I have been making that point for some time as well.
If you take all the laws that are currently active (whether enforced or not) I have long believed that most people are in violation of the law nearly all the time.
If you read Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s “Gulag Archipelago” it is easy to see that is what the Soviet state did. And they did it intentionally.
Even the MOST federally-minded of the Founding Fathers would be stunned and horrified at what government is today. That is our biggest problem.
Liberalism and its tenets act as barnacles on the hull of personal freedom.
Undocumented lobsters: if he had shipped Mexicans to Hong Kong in a box, no problem.
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