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| | HEFTY FINES FOR TWO INDIVIDUALS CRABBING IN BURRARD INLET (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20) |
 | | On September 9, 2001, fishery officers were conducting a night patrol in the Barnet Marine Park and observed four individuals on a pier using flashlights, two of which were engaging in fishing activity. |
 | | On October 25, 2001, in Burnaby provincial court, Kun Zhi and Yong Xiang Bao pleaded guilty to catching and retaining Dungeness crabs. |
 | | They were fined $2,500 each and are prohibited from fishing in Burrard Inlet, possessing of a fishing licence, possessing crab fishing equipment or being in the company of anyone who is crab fishing. |
| www.pac.dfo-mpo.gc.ca /comm/pages/release/p-releas/2001/nr106_e.htm (290 words) |
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