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For years, Fisheries and Oceans, Gulf Region, has been responding to all the inshore fishers' demands when seiners are involved. It's become a real circus. The inshore fishers blame the seiners for all their problems. They have accused the seiners of destroying their lobster, when we all know the piracy that goes on in this resource. They have accused the seiners of not abiding by the restriction lines and we had to install "black boxes" on our boats, in addition to having observers at sea, to prove that we kept within the lines. On Prince Edward Island, we were even accused of destroying the spring fishery with our fall fishery. But the only rationale for all this making sure that as soon as seiners find the fish, a demonstration of some sort is organized to make us lose track of the fish, to make us lose time and money. What's important is making sure that the media swallow their sad tales full of lies, that the "BIG BAD SEINERS" will destroy the resource, destroy the fishing grounds, destroy their market, and on and on.
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