"Just cleaning out all these young crabs — and there's only a limited amount so you can imagine the impact." An RCMP officer on patrol in Sooke, B.C., saved 125 crabs from an early death Friday morning. The officer found three men illegally fishing off a local pier along with buckets of freshly caught dungeness and red rock crabs — most of them young females too small for capture. "The crabs were all alive and were returned to the water after the officers were finished processing them," McArthur said. "It's not the first time we've come across it, but it is by far the worst example of overfishing and keeping undersize crabs and females," said Staff Sgt.

Source: CBC News July 02, 2016 16:52 UTC