Fisheries: $7000 Dollar Fine-East Bunbury man.
Submitted by Moking on Fri, 2015-05-29 17:57
Hmm- Did a runner and caught. That's got to hurt the hip pocket:
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sea-kem
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67 year old. Stupid prick
67 year old. Stupid prick should know better. I wonder if his mates on the boat chipped in.
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Deleted
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i wonder how often they have
i wonder how often they have done this
sea-kem
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No doubt a lot Gilly, first
No doubt a lot Gilly, first time caught probably.
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Rob H
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good result
good result
Pity though that it seems to be treated more seriously than drunk driving, granny bashing, mugging and break and enter (at least for the first 20 offences)
Give a man a mask, and he'll show you his true face...
The older you get the more you realize that no one has a f++king clue what they're doing.
Everyone's just winging it.
D_d_001
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absolutely agree. think the
absolutely agree. think the 7K is about right.
a while ago I had a guy force his way into a house I was at.(not mine) (was high on alcohol and prob meth.) try to extort money, he assaulted me. went on to smash up the next house.
Police did a great job caught him. I took time off work to pick him out of photo line up and make a statement. Great job police...built a tight prosecution.
went to court found guilty and then the judge FAILED !!!
sentenced him to ....nothing !. don't do it again. no fine no pay for damages.
We are all fishos here and hate ppl doing the wrong thing in that department but in the scheme of things it's not a major crime.
If this 67 year old got a 7k fine for fishing related offences what are ppl's opinions of what sort of punishment the above deserves !
ummmm rant over
Rob H
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yep, while I hate this sort
yep, while I hate this sort of thing mostly because it appears to be a habitual offender who simply went out and did it again (if thats true), I think some penalties are out of proportion with general standards meted out for other crimes which are WAY more serious, affect more people in many ways.
You'd be unlucky to get a $7K fine for a 2nd or 3rd drink driving offence where people could get killed, or a one punch unprovoked assault.
Give a man a mask, and he'll show you his true face...
The older you get the more you realize that no one has a f++king clue what they're doing.
Everyone's just winging it.
hezzy
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totally agree with you rob &
totally agree with you rob & dd above
the penalty for other offences are not nearly enough to fit the crime , mush more serious offences get off way to lightly
this bloke deserves what he got imo
hezzy
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Messiah
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I watched this guy get
I watched this guy get caught. We were also at Grey this weekend and we had got back earlier in the day.
He got sprung - fisheries nabbed him, although here's the kicker.
When spoken to by another resident, he said he had the undersized fish on board (+1 sized), then caught a bigger model. Kept the small, plus the other one, and the large one and came back in.
After they left, he went back out and caught his bag limit - again.
He was out every day. Smash, grab, repeat.
Small ~5.6m aluminum cat - plastered with BAMBAM on the side. Uses a HDS5 and two cheapo overhead combos.
Named and shamed. Repeat offender.
Auslobster
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Just wondering...
...if he got his bucket back.
MattMiller
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Pathetic
IMO should have been $70000 (not $7000) including seizure of his boat.
Obviously been doing shit like that for a long time and has a blatant disreguard for the regs.
Start throwing the book at these fools and it 'may' stop some others from doing the same.
meglodon
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Confiscated the boat
He should have had his boat confiscated as well as the fine.
boonmack
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I'll do a shit and throw it
I'll do a shit and throw it on his boat next time im there if I see it.
what a disgrace
wish I was fishing
meglodon
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Make sure you have had
Make sure you have had a good hot currie for tea the night before, why, because he deserves a good serve.
Meteorite
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A regular
That guy has been going up there for years you wonder how much he got away with .
petermac
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what a f######
what a twat
Jim
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Treated more harshly because
Treated more harshly because people make alot of money out of it. Bit like white collar crime
Bend over
tassy
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They need to triple the fine.
They need to triple the fine. make it really really hard for them. it's about time gov grew a pair an really nailed these pigs. like the scum whm kill undersise at Ascott jetty for sake of it. if they dont have bottle to jail people that. At least give them fines that mean something. I get sick of bleeding hearts that cry foul when these poor little vegimites are so misunderstood. it isnt their fault after all. The fish just made them catch so many.....
An people think Comm Fisherman are bad... HA!
Five bream an counting
One tree
One fooone hand
One jetty.
TGMitchell
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I agree...
Scuttle the boat!
20k fine!
Sell the children into slavery in Saudi!
And if you see him and you have any shit - chuck it at him!
The Black Baron
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i go walking in claremont
i go walking in claremont a lot, and most nights when the weather is good theres quite a few groups of people on the jetty catching undersize fish and crabs
i suppose fisheries must go there at times, but people are doing it so often, it doesnt seem to deter them
i saw one group taking turns to load up their car boot, and then keep going back on the jetty
ive called fisheries in the past, but they were never able to come that night, so its good to hear that at least this guy got caught