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Illegal Gill Net Found Deployed In Anclote River
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Published: November 14, 2007
NEW PORT RICHEY, Fla. - NEW PORT RICHEY, Fla. - Pasco deputies are looking for the owner of a gill net as long as a football field that was left with several hundred pounds of fish in it, Pasco sheriff's spokesman Doug Tobin said.
Deputies found the net in the Anclote River near Anclote River Park in Holiday this morning after they were alerted to an abandoned net in the channe. Authorities think it was set up between 4 a.m. and 6:30 a.m., Tobin said.
Deputies said they found the net strung up across the channel with several hundred pounds of ladyfish and mullet inside.
Pasco County workers later destroyed the net.
Possession and use of gill nets is a misdemeanor crime.
Anyone who might have seen someone setting up the net is asked to contact the Pasco Sheriff's Office at 1-800-706-2488.
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