$23K in fines for netted fish left to rot
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This article was published 06/04/2023 (974 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
A Winnipeg man has been fined $5,000 and ordered to pay more than $18,000 in restitution after hundreds of fish died and rotted in nets last summer on Lake Winnipeg.
On Thursday, Manitoba Natural Resources and Northern Development said the man (who it didn’t name) was charged under the Fisheries Act of Canada on Aug. 2, 2022, and convicted Feb. 3.
The total penalty was $23,396.
Conservation officers were checking fishing nets on the lake June 17, when they found a set of three nets west of the Balsam Bay harbour.
The officers found almost 500 rotten fish (including 355 walleye and sauger) caught in the nets, with only 30 walleye and sauger still alive to be released back into the lake.
Conservation officers seized the fish, which had to be thrown out as not salvageable, as well as nets, buoys and anchors.
Elsewhere, conservation officers from the Carberry area were patrolling Nov. 4, 2022, when they saw a spotlight on a truck being used to light up fields at about 12:55 a.m.
The officers stopped the truck and arrested a Brandon man and a minor with him. They also seized a dead wild boar, as well as the truck, rifle and ammunition.
The man was convicted of hunting at night and given a $3,000 fine on Jan. 24. The man was also given a one-year suspension of big game and game bird hunting privileges.
Everything seized, including the truck, have been forfeited to the Crown.