Pot markers

[DavidP]

hi
Talking to a friend in the pub over the weekend who caught his outboard in a pot line ,the question came up about shotguns and the legality of useing one at sea to shoot floating debris and maybe the odd pot bouy.
So can he use a legal Shotgun at sea

Dave

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[Moose]

Well the Navy get away with firing bigger things than a shotgun/forums/images/icons/laugh.gif
Perhaps he should tell HMCG what he is doing so they can issue a nav warning......" WZ604 031204UTC South East approaches to the Solent. Lunatic with a shotgun taking pot shots at anything that floats within 100yds of him in position 50'35'986N 001'01'340W. All vessels are to exercise extreme caution and pass by as fast as possible".

Now, where can I buy a shotgun,,,,tcm you must know!

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El Alce

 

[pbdrivers]

If my (failing) memory serves me....a legally possessed shotgun may be used on land with the permission of the owner of that land. If the same legislation were to be applied to this instance then it would be a simple matter of obtaining the permission of the owner of the particular stretch of water in which you wish to take pot (intended) shots. Who owns the water up to the national territorial limit? Is it the Queen ?(gawd bless her) maybe someone else can assist on that one. So perhaps a polite request to her Madge would do the trick?
I think people have shooting parties with shotguns from the back of liners and the like but outside territorial waters in order to obviate the need for that very permission.
Would a high powered and legally possessed air rifle suffice to break the bloody things?


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[pbdrivers]

Another thing just occured to me...pot buoy, lots of rope and ting underneath it, with the pot buoy/bottle/ etc at the floaty end of the rope at least we know there is rope there and can avoid it if seen. If we just shoot/remove the buoy and leave the rope dangling in the water (a lot of them use that cheap nylon stuff which floats) then there is an unmarked hazard in the water waiting to foul our stergear.
Just a thought.

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[BrendanS]

They leave floating lines between the bouys anyway. Sometimes several hundred feet of the stuff.

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