Man fined over illegal abalone purchase
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14th July 2009, 11:30 WST A Carlisle man was fined more than $65,000 in the Perth Magistrate’s Court yesterday after admitting he illegally purchased greenlip abalone.
Leung Wang Kong pleaded guilty to buying more than 60kg of abalone in three separate transactions.
The abalone was not taken by a commercial fishing licence holder.
Mr Leung’s restaurant, the Collie Golden Eagle Chinese Restaurant, was also charged with purchasing 35 black bream and 31 herring and failing to make a record of the purchase, a requirement under Fisheries Department regulations.
Under the Fish Resources Management Act, the mandatory penalty for purchasing greenlip abalone is based on 10 times the prescribed value of the fish, by weight or per fish.
Strategic compliance manager Tina Thorne said WA’s commercial abalone fishery benefited from a high demand and price on international markets, but required careful management and enforcement of laws to ensure breeding stocks were not endangered.
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Adam Gallash
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IMO
If you want to know why you havent been checked at the ramps, this is part of the reason why IMO. They're getting the guys that are doing the real damage, boat ramp checks are a very small cog in the big wheel.
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Craig Pearse
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He should have lost his
He should have lost his restaurant aswell, what a prick
till
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What is it with Collie?
What is it with Collie?
carnarvonite
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Didn't you know
Didn't you know that Collie's other preferred name is "Poacherville"because most of the biggest penalties for abalone,crayfish and marron handed out are to people from there.
till
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Yeah, I just don't know why
Yeah, I just don't know why they all live there!
offroad fisher
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how many guys coming back to
how many guys coming back to the ramps are selling it to shops like the one above though?? agree craig, should have lost the lot!
Adam Gallash
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pre-empt?
How do you know what they are doing with it if you aren't checking the restaurant, you can't pre-empt their actions.
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offroad fisher
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fair call adam. however, i
fair call adam. however, i strongly believe that if more checks were done by fisheries officers at ramps ( not researchers ), a hell of a lot more would be caught. and if the fines were more stringent, eventually the selfish buggers exceeding their bag limits might think twice. would also be good if they kept tabs on who caught what overall, as some guys are out there catching their "bag limit/ boat limit " so often, they would have to be over their 20kg possesion limit.
back on the subject, was their a report on the sods selling it to the resteraunt in the first place?
Scaly Man Fish
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who was the fisherman
I know of a guy a year ago who got pulled over by the police in the Carlisle area with a boot load of abalone and apparently nothing happened ???????????
I hope he was telling me b/s because he deserves everything he gets a total looser of epic proporations
saltatrix
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fair call adam. however, i
fair call adam. however, i strongly believe that if more checks were done by fisheries officers at ramps ( not researchers ), a hell of a lot more would be caught. and if the fines were more stringent, eventually the selfish buggers exceeding their bag limits might think twice
I think possibly much of the big hauls are taken from regional areas. I still think cameras at ramps would paint a bigger picture for officers especially with a 20 kilo posession limit now standing?
At least one officer could make a much bigger impact monitoring many ramps at once. There is so much other information that could be gathered too. Like who is knocking off the cars at the ramps as well.
What else could they do to improve efficiency of management?
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