Illegal FIshing

• Possible illegal fishing operations, including shark finning, found during DFO patrols

  The operation included officers with the DFO, the Canadian Coast Guard and a handful of international partners and they told Global News they found numerous fishing violations.

  Crime

  Aug 6
  
• Illegal Boundary Bay crab fishing nets 4 men $287,000 in fines

  The penalties came after Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) investigations into the commercial crab fleet operating in Boundary Bay, and several convictions in provincial court.

  Environment

  Sep 18, 2023
  
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• DFO raises alarm about ‘rampant illegal fishing’ in protected B.C. waters

  While some species of rockfish are designated "of special concern" under the federal Species at Risk Act, protected areas are meant to include all finfish.

  Environment

  Sep 1, 2023
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• Elver fishing season halted, Maritime fishers say Ottawa not doing enough to protect industry

  The order prohibiting fishing signed by the fisheries minister on Saturday says there's been a significant amount of people fishing for eel 'outside the authorized fishery.'

  Canada

  Apr 17, 2023
• DFO slaps 3 B.C. men with combined $113K in illegal fishing fines

  Fisheries and Oceans Canada announced more than $100,000 in fines against three men for separate illegal fishing incidents dating back to 2018.

  Environment

  Mar 17, 2023
• Fisheries and Oceans Canada seize hundreds of illegal, ghost traps near White Rock, B.C.

  Crews collect the traps using a line and grapple hook, which is thrown over the side of a patrol boat, then dragged across the ocean floor.

  Environment

  Jan 28, 2023
• 3 men handed 1-year ban, fines for illegal fishing in B.C.

  Fisheries and Oceans Canada say the three were caught following a public tip in August 2021. The three were found guilty in November 2022.

  Canada

  Dec 17, 2022
• Beauval, Sask. man fined $14,500 for breaching wildlife, fisheries laws

  A 36-year-old man from Beauval, Sask. has been fined $14,500 after pleading guilty to multiple wildlife and fisheries offences last month.

  Crime

  Dec 14, 2021
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• ‘Ghost fishing’: Crackdown nets 337 illegal traps in B.C.’s Boundary Bay

  The seizure is more than double the 136 traps pulled from Boundary Bay in 2020.

  Crime

  Feb 4, 2021
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• Dozens charged in October for illegal night fishing on Rice Lake south of Peterborough

  The MNRF say most of the infractions involve the use of artificial light to attract fish.

  Environment

  Nov 6, 2020