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4 fined $17K for fisheries violations

Darpan News Desk The Canadian Press, 20 Jun, 2023 12:04 PM
  • 4 fined $17K for fisheries violations

Two men and two women have been fined a total of 17-thousand dollars -- and had all their fishing gear confiscated -- after being convicted of fisheries violations and lying to a fisheries officer.

A Victoria provincial court judge found the violations happened off Galiano Island in May of last year when officers checked a nearly seven-metre vessel, discovering a cache of hidden rock fish -- including three Yelloweye rock fish, which are illegal to retain.

The case concluded earlier this month and the proceedings heard that officers were told only a few fish were in a tote on deck -- but a search located the hidden catch.

The vessel master was fined two-thousand dollars for her part in the misleading statements, while each of the other three accused were fined 35-hundred dollars for overpossession of rock fish and an additional 15-hundred dollars for obstruction.

 

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