{"id":7581,"date":"2024-06-25T19:01:59","date_gmt":"2024-06-25T22:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/?p=7581"},"modified":"2024-06-26T06:32:15","modified_gmt":"2024-06-26T09:32:15","slug":"fisherman-charged-7000-fine-for-tampering-with-fishing-gear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/2024\/06\/25\/fisherman-charged-7000-fine-for-tampering-with-fishing-gear\/","title":{"rendered":"Fisherman Fined $7000 For Tampering With Fishing Gear."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On May 15, a herring harvester from Nova Scotia was sentenced to pay a $7,000 fine for offences under the Fisheries Act, including tampering with food, social and ceremonial (FSC) lobster gear. This individual also paid a $600 restitution directly to the impacted harvester and was prohibited from fishing during the first two weeks of the herring fishery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>FSC fisheries are not commercial fisheries and may take place outside the commercial season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We do not tolerate gear tampering. Interference with lawful fishing is illegal, causes debris that harms fish and fish habitat, and may result in a fine of up to $100,000 for offences under the Fisheries Act.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Any harvesters who have gear destroyed or tampered with should report the incidents to local police and the nearest Conservation and Protection detachment: https:\/\/ow.ly\/xRTJ50SpzIY.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source : DFO Release<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On May 15, a herring harvester from Nova Scotia was sentenced to pay a $7,000 fine for offences under the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7582,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,10,12,13,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-general","category-latest","category-news","category-top-stories"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7581"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7590,"href":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7581\/revisions\/7590"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}