What to do

[AB1]

Hi all,

I have recently stumbled upon a website were a gentleman offers hunting and fishing trips in SA, one of his fishing promo picks contains two rather sizable and unfortunately very dead large mouth yellow’s. As a hunter I would have presumed he would be aware the yellow is a protected species.

What can one do in such a case?

I also have an issue with subsistence fisherman at one spot I fish occasionally, they to catch and kill yellows. I have pleaded and begged for them not to keep the yellows but to no avail. To whom do I report this and what action can I expect?

[Andre]

Hi all,

I have recently stumbled upon a website were a gentleman offers hunting and fishing trips in SA, one of his fishing promo picks contains two rather sizable and unfortunately very dead large mouth yellow’s. As a hunter I would have presumed he would be aware the yellow is a protected species.

What can one do in such a case?

I also have an issue with subsistence fisherman at one spot I fish occasionally, they to catch and kill yellows. I have pleaded and begged for them not to keep the yellows but to no avail. To whom do I report this and what action can I expect?

Post the link, lets spam him....

[Wade]

Post the link, lets spam him....

Excelent plan of action

[srt007]

So what's the site address, If you don't want to put it up here can you maybe pm it to me? Might be the one that was mentioned on here a while ago, also a hunting and safari site... there are ways to force them to remove those pics....

[pieterkriel]

I am afraid that spamming him might be the only option, annoy him into submission

[NCBass]

Perhaps the same mentioned in this thread?
I don't see the site anymore...

[markdej]

Spamming wont slow him down too much if he has remotely decent mail server filtering.

Now a domain whois query, on the sa domain registry will give us more "useful" info

Then we know who owns/maintains and pays for the site (and the billing address)..... hehehe

Mark

[AB1]

It seems that my mail may have penetrated. We may spare him the spamming for now, I will monitor his site.

Here is his reply.

Hello Abraham

Thanks for your e-mail. Yes I know yellowfish is now on the endangered list.
The pictures were taken about six to seven years ago, might even be longer
and it was the first largemouth yellowfish I ever caught. I caught the small
one first and kept it to be mounted. I then caught the big one and the small
one died so I could not put it back. I caught several large ones since then
and all have been released. I will change the wording on my website to that
effect and I do apologize if the pictures of the dead yellowfish upset you.

Thanks again for bringing it to my attention

[AB1]

Any advice on the subsistance fisherman gents??????

Would nature conservation not be able to hand out some hefty fines???? This may serve as waring or even stop them from fishing??

[Chris Shelton]

The guy looks like another fly by night operator to me. If he has caught and released so many yellows over the past 6 years as per his claim, why no photos of those? Why only photos of his first two dead fish!?