Cornwall fishing father and son illegally caught pregnant lobsters

June 15, 2023 International, International News

Officials said Andrew, 30, and 54-year-old Leslie Burt may have even scrubbed the shellfish to remove their eggs so it was not apparent they had been carrying them. Pleading guilty to seven charges relating to catching lobsters and poor record keeping, the pair were sentenced at Truro Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday for also retaining and landing lobsters with mutilated tails in their boat Isabelle. On December 19, 2022, the fishing vessel Isabelle PW64 returned to the port of Padstow after a six-day fishing trip both inside and outside the Cornwall Inshore Fisheries and Conservation Authority (IFCA) district. Cornwall IFCA officers conducted a routine inspection of the catch of crabs and lobsters and discovered 28 berried female lobsters and two lobsters with damage to their tails. >click to read< 08:40

28 berried female lobsters, 30-year-old son Andrew Burt, 54-year-old Leslie Burt, Cornwall, fishing father and son, illegally caught pregnant lobsters, lobster, Plead guilty to seven charges, scrubbed the shellfish, Truro Magistrates' Court, UK

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It took me a while to decide how to most accurately describe the situation that has been visited upon the New England fishing communities that are and since colonial times have been dependent on the groundfish fisheries.

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