NSW man gets $11k penalty for making more than $200k selling protected fish

NSW man gets $11k penalty for making more than $200k selling protected fish

Source: ABC Broken Hill

6/16/2021

$Bill Ormonde$

A Victorian judge has been left scratching his wig as to why a man who stole 12 tonnes of fish from the drought-stricken Darling River was not charged with more serious offences in New South Wales.
The 38-year-old faced the Mildura County Court after he made more than $205,000 from illegally selling golden perch at the Footscray Market from July 1 2017 to March 8 2019.

Under NSW law golden perch cannot be fished commercially.

Today Shaun Russell Cox was handed an $11,000 fine after pleading guilty to profiting from the fish he took from the river between Wentworth and Wilcannia over a 20-month period.

"I saw the Darling in 2019 and it was not a pretty sight," Judge John Smallwood said.

Mr Cox was fined $15,000 and had his boat confiscated in 2019 in relation to some of the offences he admitted to NSW Fisheries.

At the time some Darling River locals were critical of the punishment, calling it a "slap on the wrist".

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