Filling your freezer

[FishnDave]

This is the last fish I kept to eat...caught in 2014 off the coast of Costa Rica.  Delicious!

Extremely fast-growing fish.  A guy wrote about his dad who worked for Sea World.  The dad caught some 1.5 lb Mahi Mahi...they threw them in the sardine and anchovy exhibit tanks at Sea World.  One died 18 months later.  It weighed 68 lbs!!  Granted, it had basically an unlimited food supply.

They start spawning every 2-3 days starting at age 4-5months old, with females dropping an average 50,000 eggs each time.  

[Devan S.]

1 hour ago, MoCarp said:

If you catch them they count to YOUR possession no matter where they are stored...they are supposed to have who caught them and where/when......it’s often violated regulation....if you have 5 in your family THEY have to catch the fish...kinda like someone buying tags for the 5 year old 

So if gift out fillets how often am I required to check the receiver's freezer to ensure proper usage before I continue fishing?

 

 

[tjm]

1 hour ago, Devan S. said:

So if gift out fillets how often am I required to check the receiver's freezer to ensure proper usage before I continue fishing?

 

 

I still want to see the regulation that states that.

I've given away fish to complete strangers and it never occurred to me to get their address so I could follow up. Probably better I just leave them on the bank then when they get hooked too deep or are too exhausted.

[MoCarp]

1 hour ago, Devan S. said:

So if gift out fillets how often am I required to check the receiver's freezer to ensure proper usage before I continue fishing?

 

 

Guess you can “chance it”......in reality if the man wants to bust you...he’s going to bust you.....

[MoCarp]

https://www.startribune.com/locals-busted-on-mille-lacs-for-too-many-fish/221375381/

[Devan S.]

42 minutes ago, tjm said:

I still want to see the regulation that states that.

I've given away fish to complete strangers and it never occurred to me to get their address so I could follow up. Probably better I just leave them on the bank then when they get hooked too deep or are too exhausted.

 

Intent and the practical application of the law are 2 entirely different things. What is the actual action that removes fish from your possession? Is it eating them? What happens if they go bad? Or if my wife's cooking sucks and I dump them outside? Or my freezer dies and they all spoil? Are those last 2 considered wanton waste now too?

Don't get me wrong there is people out there with over the possession limit in freezers un labeled but were trying to parse the law to the point that its foolish. 

 

I've never once had a GW ask me to list out items I may have gifted out. Frankly never even been checked for a possession limits(home freezer check) and the only case I can see a GW wasting time is blatant serious abuse(think multi limits in a trout park or mega daily limit abuse). 

[MoCarp]

https://www.startribune.com/minnesota-angler-busted-with-almost-250-fish-over-limit/188251551/

[DADAKOTA]

MoCarp - you going to provide the actual regulation or do folks just need to rely on your opinion?

[MoCarp]

https://wkmi.com/michigan-man-busted-1400-fish/

[MoCarp]

4 minutes ago, DADAKOTA said:

MoCarp - you going to provide the actual regulation or do folks just need to rely on your opinion?

DAILY AND POSSESSION LIMITS

You may possess no more than the daily limit of any given species while you are on waters, or on the banks of waters, where daily limits for those species apply. Any species taken into actual possession, unless released unharmed immediately after being caught, shall continue to be included in the daily limit of the taker for the day. 

Where only catch-and-release fishing is allowed, fish must be returned unharmed immediately to the water after being caught.

The possession limit is twice the statewide daily limit.

 

Fish you take and possess must be kept separate or distinctly identifiable from fish taken by another person.

 

If you are away from your catch, the device holding the fish must be plainly labeled with your full name and address.