Antique Lobster Licence
A Nova Scotia lobster fisherman has been fined $17,000 for offenses including printing up his own lobster fishing license. The Department of Fishing says Joey Oickle of Shelburne County pleaded guilty to charges including fraud and fishing lobster without a personal fisherman’s registration. He was fined $8,150 for the offenses and was ordered to pay back $8,850 as a result of proceeds of crime. Investigators found that Oickle had used a computer to forge a license for lobster in fishing area 33. He then leased the forged license for $5,000 to another lobster fisherman, who also agreed to pay Oickle 20% of the total worth of the illegal lobster catch during the 2006-07 lobster fishing season.