SEATTLE OUTDOOR RADIO HOST FACES $2,500 FINE FOR FEEDING SEAL A FISH FIN

[bearpaw]

SEATTLE OUTDOOR RADIO HOST FACES $2,500 FINE FOR FEEDING SEAL A FISH FIN

A Puget Sound pier angler who involuntary fed a harbor seal his Chinook this morning won’t face a fine.

But a local radio show host who flicked a dorsal fin to another lurking like “dogs at the dinner table” to illustrate the marine mammal’s overabundance and impact on ESA-listed salmon stocks in the inland sea faces a bill that’s grown to $2,500 for doing so.

full story: https://mailchi.mp/46ed6239e0b8/puget-sound-crab-season-begins-jun-1627825?e=a64b754ccb

[ThurstonCokid]

My dad works with this guy. Pretty crazy story..


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[Alchase]

Go Tom!

[trophyhunt]

Wth, started as a 500 dollar fine for throwing a fin to a seal??  So confused why that is illegal?  Up at neah bay the sea lions are few all day long at the cleaning station.

[Knocker of rocks]

His arguement that it wasn't in the wild, but inside a harbor, hence the law doesn't apply.

He lost me there with his idiocy.   By his way of thinking, laws that use those terms shouldn't apply on the Columbia or any river with dams.  It probably shouldn't apply to the lower Columbia or Greys Harbor because the massive dredging that goes on there renders those bodies no longer "wild" by his definition.

I had sympathy for him, but after understanding his moronic logic, jail time would be OK.

[bigtex]

He wasn't fined $2,500. He was fined $500 and didn't pay it, thus the fine increased.

[Stein]

His arguement that it wasn't in the wild, but inside a harbor, hence the law doesn't apply.

He lost me there with his idiocy.   By his way of thinking, laws that use those terms shouldn't apply on the Columbia or any river with dams.  It probably shouldn't apply to the lower Columbia or Greys Harbor because the massive dredging that goes on there renders those bodies no longer "wild" by his definition.

I had sympathy for him, but after understanding his moronic logic, jail time would be OK.

You really want to live in a country where you can go to jail for feeding a seal?

[Bushcraft]

This reeks of heavy-handed selective "law" enforcement.

[Knocker of rocks]

His arguement that it wasn't in the wild, but inside a harbor, hence the law doesn't apply.

He lost me there with his idiocy.   By his way of thinking, laws that use those terms shouldn't apply on the Columbia or any river with dams.  It probably shouldn't apply to the lower Columbia or Greys Harbor because the massive dredging that goes on there renders those bodies no longer "wild" by his definition.

I had sympathy for him, but after understanding his moronic logic, jail time would be OK.

You really want to live in a country where you can go to jail for feeding a seal?

I just want him in jail for positing a moronic legal argument.

[ThurstonCokid]

His arguement that it wasn't in the wild, but inside a harbor, hence the law doesn't apply.

He lost me there with his idiocy.   By his way of thinking, laws that use those terms shouldn't apply on the Columbia or any river with dams.  It probably shouldn't apply to the lower Columbia or Greys Harbor because the massive dredging that goes on there renders those bodies no longer "wild" by his definition.

I had sympathy for him, but after understanding his moronic logic, jail time would be OK.

You really want to live in a country where you can go to jail for feeding a seal?

I just want him in jail for positing a moronic legal argument.

You serious? LOL


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[kenzmad]

As a comment on another forum read, “ couldnt they cite all the kids and moms at the local beach the same for feeding the birds?”

[Alchase]

As a comment on another forum read, “ couldnt they cite all the kids and moms at the local beach the same for feeding the birds?”

And every fishing pier, marina, or boat launch on the salt where sea-lions hang out. And every boat where people throw their old bait over board. there is a reason they follow boats into the marina.

[bkaech]

I just want him in jail for positing a moronic legal argument.
[/quote]

Most "legal" arguments are moronic, just trying to find a technicality to get out of it. I'm sure he didn't think about it when he did it..."o this isn't the wild so I won't get in trouble." Just the legal technicality side of it. 

And the biggest reason he isn't paying and the fine is increasing is to get publicity about the problem...too many seals, which is a real issue.

[fishngamereaper]

His arguement that it wasn't in the wild, but inside a harbor, hence the law doesn't apply.

He lost me there with his idiocy.   By his way of thinking, laws that use those terms shouldn't apply on the Columbia or any river with dams.  It probably shouldn't apply to the lower Columbia or Greys Harbor because the massive dredging that goes on there renders those bodies no longer "wild" by his definition.

I had sympathy for him, but after understanding his moronic logic, jail time would be OK.

You really want to live in a country where you can go to jail for feeding a seal?

I just want him in jail for positing a moronic legal argument.

Man if we could put everyone in jail that use moronic legal arguments....

[Knocker of rocks]

Man if we could put everyone in jail that use moronic legal arguments....

President Al Gore