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Media release: Jail term for illegal abalone haul
Thursday, February 10, 2011
A magistrate has handed out stiff penalties, including a jail term, to two men found guilty of taking more than double the legal limit for a recreational catch of abalone.
The two men were sentenced in the Hamilton Magistrates Court this week after earlier being found guilty of using commercial abalone equipment to take more than twice the catch limit, together with a number of other fisheries offences in the Peterborough area early last year.
One man, a 45-year-old from St Albans, was given a 120-day prison term which was reduced to 14 days and ordered to pay court costs of $4630. The man was also prohibited from engaging in any abalone related activity for 10 years.
The second man, a 46-year-old from Delahey, was convicted and fined $2500, ordered to pay costs of $4888, ordered to forfeit the vehicle he borrowed from a friend and prohibited from engaging in any abalone related activity for five years.
During a routine inspection of the men’s vehicle on March 12 last year, Fisheries officers had found them to be in possession of the daily limit of five black lip abalone each, together with one Southern Rock Lobster.
However, officers later found a black plastic bag containing 77 shucked abalone meats and one undersize rock lobster tail concealed under tree branches in a sandy clearing in the Peterborough area.
Late in the day, one of the men was seen traveling in the same vehicle in the direction of the site where the bag had been found.
Fisheries officers then returned to the site and found the other man crawling under and through dense vegetation within close proximity of the bag of abalone.
The man was arrested after being surrounded by Fisheries officers and together with his companion was taken to the Port Campbell Police Station for questioning.
Fisheries Victoria Western Operations Manager Paul Millar said the fines and the jail term reflected the seriousness of fisheries offences such as exceeding recreational catch limits for abalone.
The sustainability of Victoria’s abalone resource depends on all recreational fishers observing the catch limits, Mr Millar said.
Fisheries Victoria officers will continue to enforce those limits and anyone thinking of breaking the law should be reminded that magistrates will hand out harsh penalties.
Anyone who sees or suspects illegal fishing activity is urged to call the 24 hour reporting line, 13-FISH (13 3474).
Media contact: Paul Sellars DPI Melbourne (03) 9658 4078 |
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