Snow Crab
Jerome Kerrivan of Placentia was convicted in provincial court in Placentia Jan. 3 for violating conditions of his snow crab license. Kerrivan was fined $4,500 for fishing snow crab in an area he was not licensed to fish in and $500 for fishing from a vessel not identified on his license. Pius Mulrooney of Placentia, who was fishing with Kerrivan at the time of the offence, was fined $750 for making a false statement during the investigation. On April 29, 2006, fishery officers from the Placentia detachment using land-based patrol vehicles, a patrol vessel and a surveillance plane, conducted a stakeout operation in the Placentia Bay area in response to information of illegal crab-fishing activity. On May 1, 2006, the two men were observed hauling crab pots and were apprehended by fishery officers. In provincial court in Placentia March 2, Richard Nash of Branch was fined $500 for fishing from an unregistered vessel. Fishery officers from the Placentia detachment conducted an investigation of Nash and found that during the 2006 snow crab fishery, he used a vessel not authorized on his 2006 snow crab license. In provincial court in St. John’s on Feb. 16, Keith Boland of St. John’s was fined $500 for exceeding his 2005 individual quota for Atlantic cod by 1,049 lbs. Charges were laid by fishery officers of the Bay Roberts detachment following a review of Boland’s 2005 cod landings.