Owner of F/V Ocean Provider Fined $6,000 Over 30,000 Pounds of Tuna
The owners of fishing vessel Ocean Provider have been fined $6,000 after pleading guilty to fishing for albacore tuna without a valid license between the period of July 22, 2022 and August 15, 2022.
Routine fisheries inspections conducted by fishery officers on board the CCGS Tanu boarded the Ocean Provider one day when it was approximately 42 nautical miles offshore of Barkley Sound on the West Coast of Vancouver Island. Officers found that the crew were actively fishing, but that the vessel did...
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