December 2008 MAINE COASTAL NEWS Page 13.
Canadian Commercial Fishing News
Charges Laid Against the Master of the number of investigations carried out in the engage in commercial fishing while designat- unmonitored catch included seven pounds
FV Sea Hawk commercial fishery by Fisheries and Oceans ing another person to fish all or a portion of of cod fillets, two whole cod fish and six cod
September Canada (DFO), Newfoundland and Labrador the harvester’s licence during the same time heads. The catch was forfeited and fines
On September 23, 2008, a Fisheries and Region, have resulted in the following con- period. totaled $750.
Oceans Canada (DFO) surveillance aircraft victions: Gordon Strang of Lawn was convicted
patrolling Canada’s Exclusive Economic On August 26, Brendan Doody of on two charges for failing to remove fishing Fisheries Infractions Result in Fines
Zone (EEZ) sighted the U.S. swordfish ves- Admiral’s Beach was convicted of offload- gear from the water and for failing to notify 18 November
sel Sea Hawk which was believed to be ing his snow crab catch without a dockside DFO of lost fishing gear. Following the clo- NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR – A
fishing inside Canada’s EEZ. observer present. He was fined $900 and sure of the commercial groundfish fishery, number of investigations carried out by Fish-
Canadian Fishery officers boarded the forfeited 278 pounds of crab valued at $417. fisheries officers conducted a sea patrol in eries and Oceans Canada (DFO), Newfound-
Sea Hawk on September 23 and the master, Fishery officers from the Placentia detach- March 2008 and detected gillnets off land and Labrador Region, have resulted in
Linda Greenlaw, was arrested. The vessel is ment observed the infraction. Ferryland Head near St. Lawrence. The re- the following convictions:
on route to St. John’s, Newfoundland and In St. John’s Provincial Court on Sep- covered nets belonged to Mr. Strang. He was In Springdale Provincial Court on Sep-
Labrador under escort of the Canadian Coast tember 27, 2008, Bruce Thorne of Fair Haven fined $300 and the gear forfeited. tember 4, 2008, Hayward Strickland of
Guard ship Cygnus and is expected to arrive received fines totaling $3,400 for lobster and Scott Lawrence of English Harbour Pilley’s Island was fined $400 for setting his
early on September 26. salmon fishing violations. In April 2008, Mr. West, Fortune Bay, was convicted Septem- herring bait net at a depth less than six feet.
The vessel is a 63 foot pelagic longliner Thorne was found in possession of a v- ber 17, 2008, of fishing lobster out of season. Regulations require that bait nets must be set
and was fishing swordfish at the time of the notched lobster, two undersized lobsters He was ordered to pay a fine of $1,000,
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incident. and two lobster claws when his boat was prohibited from fishing lobster on the first
The charges against the master of the inspected by fishery officers at the wharf in day of the 2009 season
Sea Hawk were laid in accordance with sec- Fair Haven. In a separate incident in June and forfeited 20 lobster
tions 4, and 17 of the CFPA: 2008, fishery officers on a surveillance patrol traps. Fishery officers
Section 4 (1) (a) of the CFPA which of coastal waters near Fair Haven videotaped from the DFO office in
states “No person, being aboard a foreign Mr. Thorne retrieving and retaining Atlantic Harbour Breton seized
fishing vessel or being a member of the crew salmon from the leader of a capelin trap. Mr. Lawrence’s lobster
or attached to or employed on a foreign Conservation measures to protect the traps, which had re-
fishing vessel, shall in Canada or in Canadian lobster resource and sustainable fishing mained in the water af-
fisheries waters (a) fish or prepare to fish.” make it illegal to possess v-notched or under- ter the fishing season
Section 17 (1) of the CFPA states “Every sized lobster, and illegal to possess any claw, closed.
person is guilty of an offence who: (a) being tail or meat that has been separated from the Joseph Culleton
master or in command of a fishing vessel, (i) thorax or carapace of a lobster. of Fox Harbour was
enters Canadian fisheries waters contrary to Two lobster harvesters from English convicted in Placentia
this Act, or (ii) without legal excuse, the proof Harbour East, Fortune Bay, were convicted Provincial Court on
of which lies on that person, fails to bring to in Grand Bank Provincial Court on September September 9, 2008 of
when required to do so by any protection 18, 2008. Darrell Labour was fined $10,000 for fishing cod without a
officer or on signal of a government vessel”. possession of 14 v-notched and 12 under- licence and processing
The master appeared in Provincial Court sized lobsters. Melvin Labour was fined fish at sea. Fishery of-
on September 26 and the Judge released her $5,000 for possession of 13 v-notched lob- ficers from the DFO
on a 10,000 recognizance. A bond of $55,000 sters. Fishery officers from the DFO office in Placentia detachment
was ordered for the release of the vessel and Harbour Breton identified the illegal lobsters were conducting a pa-
catch. The conditions for release of both the while inspecting lobster holding crates in trol in Fox Harbour on
master and the vessel have been met. English Harbour East in May 2007. June 13, 2008 and ob-
A court date was set for October 27th. Wilfred Tibbo of Frenchman’s Cove served Mr. Culleton
was fined $500 for fishing his commercial offloading catch after
Convictions for Violations in lobster licence while having designated an- the dockside monitor
Commercial Fishery other individual to fish his commercial crab had departed the
18 November 18 quota. A condition of fishing licences makes wharf. An inspection
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