{"id":69954,"date":"2016-04-26T14:11:14","date_gmt":"2016-04-26T14:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=086d4fca0c841b9c31ebbf619dfd7df5"},"modified":"2016-04-26T14:11:14","modified_gmt":"2016-04-26T14:11:14","slug":"press-release-2-men-were-ordered-to-pay-more-than-1400-for-illegal-fishing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=69954","title":{"rendered":"Press release: 2 men were ordered to pay more than \u00a31,400 for illegal fishing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>The Environment Agency is reminding anglers of the importance of having a rod licence after 2 local anglers were ordered to pay more than \u00a31,400 for fishing without valid Environment Agency rod licences.<\/p>\n<p>Following the verdicts, an Environment Agency spokesman said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\">Money raised from rod licence sales is used to protect and improve fish stocks and fisheries, benefiting all anglers. We hope that these cases will provide a deterrent for any angler thinking of fishing illegally.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>James Boswell of Fettiplace Road, Abingdon was fined \u00a3440, ordered to pay \u00a3127 costs and a \u00a344 victim surcharge after pleading guilty to fishing without a licence on 26 September 2015. Environment Agency officers found Mr Boswell breaking the rules at Culham, River Thames in Abingdon.<\/p>\n<p>Tabeus Thraskevic of Morris Crescent, Oxford was fined \u00a3660, ordered to pay \u00a3127 costs and a \u00a366 victim surcharge after a charge of unlicensed fishing was proved in his absence. On 25 September 2015, Environment Agency officers found Mr Thraskevic breaking the rules at Donnington Bridge in Oxford.<\/p>\n<p>The cases, heard at Oxford Magistrates\u2019 Court on 25 April 2016, were brought by the Environment Agency.<\/p>\n<p>As well as cheating other anglers, fishing illegally can carry a hefty penalty. Getting caught without an appropriate licence could land you with a fine of up to \u00a32,500.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information about illegal fishing activities can contact the Environment Agency incident hotline on 0800 80 70 60 or anonymously to Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2 local anglers were ordered to pay more than \u00a31,400 for fishing without valid Environment Agency rod licences.<\/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\/69954"}],"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=69954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69954\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}