Crab poaching under cover of darkness earns 10-year commercial fishing ban, vessel seizure
A Cape Mudge resident involved in poaching dungeness crabs in Vancouver Harbour under the cover of darkness in February 2019 is banned from fishing commercially for 10 years and had the boat he was using – which didn’t belong to him – and all the crabbing gear in it forfeited to the Department of Fisheries and Oceans. Arthur Michael Nelson pleaded guilty to fishing for shellfish in a closed time, fishing without a licence and obstructing a fishery officer and was sentenced in Campbell River Provincial Court Thursday. >click to read<18:43
Go hang out from sand heads to the north arm for the next 3 months. You only need to be out there for one night to see where the real problem is around here. Dfo claim they don’t have enough resources to stop it so they can’t. Let’s call a spade a spade, it’s a full blown illegal commercial fishery. Starts right from the border line in Tsawwassen and goes to the north arm. Guys making millions, not thousands. No one willing to talk about it or say anything. It’s a complete joke.