Interesting to hear everybodys take on the issue, from my perspective poaching is poaching and no matter how severe the poaching is it may be one or two today 3 tommorow and it may just escalate until they get caught!! If the poacher happens to have young kids with them (which I have seen) well guess how they will respect the fishing regualations when they are a little older!
In a nut shell I have reported some pretty minor offences to the fish cops which most people would have turned their head the other way. In the end one of them ended up being busted on grand theft, and as well a much larger poaching ring then I would have imagined that could have stemmed from a 10 inch trout being kept in a catch and release stream!
We have worked to hard to let poachers take advantage of the fishing opportunities in Alberta
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