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1 down...but we gotta get more of them!!
Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2005 3:05 pm
by Markus
Found this report on the net...no pun intended.
This is local to me and brings me great pleasure to know action was taken - not enough in my opinion, but action non the less.
NETTING SPAWNING TROUT LANDS $1000 FINE
ST. THOMAS - A Straffordville man has been fined $1000.00 and banned from fishing for a year for netting and possessing rainbow trout during the closed spawning season.
Court heard that on March 30 this year, a Ministry of Natural Resources conservation officer found Michael Hesch, 52, with three adult rainbow trout taken from Little Otter Creek, Bayham. Two of the fish were carrying several hundred eggs.
In the spring, trout migrate from Lake Erie to the headwaters of various streams to spawn. The fish are highly visible in the shallow waters, making them easy targets.
The trout season in Southwestern Ontario opens the last Saturday in April.
Justice of the Peace Jan Levitt heard the case in the Ontario Court of Justice, St. Thomas on April 22.
The public is encouraged to help protect its natural resources by reporting violations to the local Ministry of Natural Resources office or anonymously to Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477).
Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2005 3:15 pm
by FLOATFISHIN
Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2005 3:19 pm
by Canadian Bacon
Excellent!!! But he should have got more.....
Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2005 4:08 pm
by RJ
I wish they would something more humiliating to them.....post their pics somewhere...public spanking?....
Great to hear of this though.....
RJ
Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2005 4:11 pm
by crash
Nice to see they are geting caught.Hope the CO's get a few more.
Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2005 4:35 pm
by wolfe
GOOD NEWS -- the silver lining to a dark cloud.
I agree, fines / penalties should be stiffer. (public spanking!
)
W.
Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2005 6:30 pm
by SkeinMachine
Drawn & quartered
Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2005 6:39 pm
by jazman
make them walk the creek beds and collect 50 garbage bags of crap... wearing a big yellow coat with the words snagger on the front and back
Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2005 6:45 pm
by wolfe
oooo, I like that one jazman!
W.
poachers
Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2005 6:49 pm
by bottom feeder
thats great, but I too think the penalty should be stiffer.
Norm L.
good job
Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2005 7:02 pm
by Icemanstan
yahoo
Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2005 7:23 pm
by Relic
There was also a few right ups in my local paper recently about walleye poachers. 3 hundred, 4 hundred dollar fines not even a slap on the wrist.
I think Jazman has the right idea
Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2005 8:28 pm
by iankrzyzanowski
Glad to hear it, hope they get more of them!
Poachin trout
Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2005 8:43 pm
by Jigs
How about branding them on the forehead........"POACHER"
Tie em up in a bag of rats, and drown em
Cut off the casting hand
Or maybe do something REALLLLLLLLL nasty
Just a thought.
Thousand dollar fine seems a bit light.
.
Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2005 6:34 pm
by Wall-I-Guy
Hopefully they publish his name everywhere
Moron
