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Diving near their traps is just asking for it. Sometimes its unavoidable, but if I were a commercial guy and saw bubbles or a light hanging out for a bit too long around my gear, I'd be waiting for some soon to be bruised divers to surface.
The UV light thing is weird to me and seems like they would have a hard time getting that to go in court. Unless they can absolutely, "beyond all reasonable doubt", PROVE that it is impossible for those marked lobsters to escape or somehow be reintroduced to the wild legally (ie, commercial guy clearing his trap), how can they convict anyone? Let's say you legally grab a legal sized, marked lobster that has escaped or that some commercial guy accidently threw back. You'd be fucked if DFG stopped you and did the test. Even if only the shorts were marked, you'd still be in a whole different world of trouble when accused of robbing traps than simply coming up with a short lobster. Do they have some way of combatting this?
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