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Oregon Man Sentenced For Commercial Fishing Crimes – SitNews

According to Assistant U.S. Attorney Stephen Cooper, the evidence established that Freddie Joe Hankins, 47, of Cove, Oregon, had caught the halibut in an area where it was illegal for him to fish under the Individual Fishing Quota (IFQ) system, and that he falsely stated in his landing reports that he caught the fish in another more distant but legal area http://www.sitnews.us/1112News/111612/111612_fishing_crimes.html