{"id":48496,"date":"2014-10-09T09:42:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-09T09:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=4da465b83012ce4a7766f6b8210c8cec"},"modified":"2014-10-09T09:42:00","modified_gmt":"2014-10-09T09:42:00","slug":"news-story-vessel-owner-and-master-guilty-of-illegal-fishing-in-lyme-bay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=48496","title":{"rendered":"News story: Vessel owner and master guilty of illegal fishing in Lyme Bay"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>On 6 October Exeter Magistrates Court heard how in May 2013 the vessel Marina (BM190) was observed fishing for scallops in the Lyme Bay designated area by a UK Border Force vessel, HMC Valiant. <\/p>\n<p>Under the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/lyme-bay-designated-area\">Lyme Bay Designated Area (Fishing Restrictions) Order,<\/a> which came into effect in July 2008, dredging for shellfish and demersal trawling has been prohibited in a designated 60 square mile area of Lyme Bay. Evidence heard by the court included evidence from Natural England on the importance of this protected area. <\/p>\n<p>The Marina\u2019s owner Stephen Hammond and master Daniel Hammond did not attend court on 6 October and had previously pleaded not guilty at an earlier hearing at Exeter Magistrates Court on the 27 May 2014.<\/p>\n<p>After finding them guilty the court ordered Stephen Hammond to pay a total of \u00a35,620, including a fine of \u00a33,000, costs of \u00a32,500 and a victim surcharge of \u00a3120. Daniel Hammond was ordered to pay \u00a36,620, including a fine of \u00a34,000, costs of \u00a32,500 and a \u00a3120 victim surcharge.<\/p>\n<p>Rachel Irish, Senior Marine Officer, for the Marine Management Organisation said: <\/p>\n<p>\u201cLyme Bay is an important marine habitat designated to protect rocky reef habitats and species from damage by activities such as bottom-towed gear fishing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis case shows we are committed to protecting Lyme Bay, in particular by working with other authorities, such as the UK Border Force, to do so.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>(Photo above by Alan Smith on Wikimedia Commons. Used under <a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Lyme_Bay_from_Goldencap_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1120301.jpg?uselang=en-gb\">Creative Commons.)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A fishing vessel owner and master have been found guilty of illegally fishing for scallops in a protected area of Lyme Bay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48496"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48496\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}