BLNR fines Hawaii island couple $272,000 after aquarium fish collecting incident 
US Source: star advertiser 2/26/2021

Two Hawaii island fishers have been fined a record $272,000 after an illegal aquarium fishing incident in Kona last year, the state Department of Land and Natural Resources said.

The Board of Land and Natural Resources today voted unanimously to fine the fishers, which the DLNR’s Division of Aquatic Resources said are record fines for those types of violations.

“The Land Board is obviously taking a strong stance against the illegal harvest of aquarium fish,” BLNR Chairwoman Suzanne Case said in a statement. “I applaud our DOCARE officers for their work tracking and investigating these cases, and the DAR staff for their expertise in documenting the illegal takes and presenting a detailed account of these egregious actions to the BLNR for consideration. I hope anyone engaged in illegally depleting Hawai‘i’s natural resources will realize the cost of breaking the law, based on the high fines levied in this case.”
 

Married couple Stephen Howard and Yukako Toriyama were ordered to pay the civil fines after a Sept. 15 incident that involved the two on a boat fishing within the West Hawaii Regional Fishery Management Area.

The DLNR said that Howard, an aquarium collector, had dropped off two women — one being Toriyama — to dive in the area to collect fish. Personnel from DLNR’s Division of Conservation and Resources Enforcement ordered Howard back to shore, leaving the two women in the water.

The missing women “prompted a multi-agency marine search and rescue operation” that was then called off “after the women were spotted late in the afternoon, with their dive gear, at a Kona-area gas station.”

 
Continue...

News Id SourceStampcountry
1301Kai Lenny Accidentally Kills Fish with Surfboardsurfer2023-10-26US
1302Семга Кольского полуостроваohotniki2023-10-29RU
1303Low numbers of salmon returning could mean long road to recoverykrcrtv2023-10-27US
1304Loren Bahls: The ethics of catch and releasehelenair2023-10-28US
1305How a Tiny Team of Journalists Held the World’s Biggest Fishing Fleet to Accounttime2023-10-26CN
1306Canadian fishing boat rescues American fisherman from missing vessel based in Washington stateabcnews2023-10-27US
1307Mystery over terrifying blood sucking fish that roamed the sea before the dinosaursexpress2023-10-28UK
1308New aquatic creature invades Minnesota watersechopress2023-11-03US
1309Parks Canada says whirling disease could ‘decimate’ fish, urges B.C. closure respecttheglobeandmail2023-10-27CA
1310Fish Farm Conglomerate Mowi Take Fisheries Ministers to Court Over Discovery Islands ShutdownsWest Coast Now2023-11-04CA
1311The startup seeking to improve feed efficiency in Egypt’s tilapia sectorthefishsite2023-11-03EG
1312U.S. Regulators Will Review Car-Tire Chemical That Kills SalmonAssociated Press2023-11-04US
1313Рецепты из записной книжки повара Екатерины IIohotniki2023-10-28RU
1314New details on bluefin tuna found in Salish Seaking52023-10-16US
1315Tiny Texas fish among 21 species removed from endangered species list due to extinctiongulflive2023-10-17US
1316Cambodia’s Tonlé Sap Lake is running out of fishgeographical2023-10-17UK
1317Alaska pollock trawlers are feeling pressure over salmon bycatchalaskapublic2023-10-19US
1318Flaming Gorge fishing heats up as temperatures cooleinnews2023-11-04US
1319Salmon River Steelhead Fishing Outfitter River Adventures Expects Strong Closeeinnews2023-11-03US
1320DNR sets winter walleye regulations for Upper Red, Mille Lacs lakesechopress2023-11-04US
1321Nofirma trials results in lower frequency of early sexual maturation in farmed codthefishsite2023-11-01NO
1322Wyoming fisherman reels in world record sucker catchktvq2023-10-19US
1323Mysterious ‘monster’ fish washes up on beachindependent2023-10-19UK
1324Body found after search for missing Queensland fisherman9news2023-11-01AU
1325Brookings Wildlife Federation to hear hunting, fishing storiesbrookingsregister2023-11-01CA

219 220 221 52 of [222 - pages.]