{"id":71875,"date":"2016-07-01T11:25:10","date_gmt":"2016-07-01T11:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=7535f401e7ca1d8a0a2cc53a1bfbc072"},"modified":"2016-07-01T11:25:10","modified_gmt":"2016-07-01T11:25:10","slug":"press-release-fake-name-fisherman-tracked-down-by-bailiff-for-fishing-in-somerton-without-rod-licence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=71875","title":{"rendered":"Press release: &#8216;Fake name&#8217; fisherman tracked down by bailiff for fishing in Somerton without rod licence"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Angler Darryl Bushen didn\u2019t hang around after he was caught fishing at a Somerset lake without a rod licence.<\/p>\n<p>The flighty fisherman was approached by an Environment Agency bailiff at the Viaduct Fishery, Somerton. When asked to produce his rod licence, Bushen said \u2018It\u2019s at home\u2019, so the officer asked for his name and address. The angler said his name was \u2018Barry Brown.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The bailiff moved a short distance away to get a better phone signal to check Bushen\u2019s details. It was at this point the angler made his exit. When the officer returned to the lakeside, the defendant had gone leaving two fishing rods on the bank and lines in the water.<\/p>\n<p>A friend fishing nearby said Bushen had gone to the site shop, but when the bailiff checked, there was no sign of the angler. The friend later rang Bushen and told him the bailiff would seize his fishing equipment if he didn\u2019t return. Bushen refused and his fishing tackle, worth several hundred pounds, was seized.<\/p>\n<p>Subsequent checks revealed the angler seen fishing was Darryl Bushen, of Selworthy Road, Weston-super-Mare.<\/p>\n<p>Bushen was fined a total of \u00a3300 by Yeovil magistrates and ordered to pay \u00a3127 costs after pleading guilty to three offences including fishing at Viaduct Fishery, Somerton, without a valid rod licence, failing to state his name to a water bailiff and leaving a rod and line with baited hook in the water unattended. He was also ordered to pay a \u00a320 victim surcharge.<\/p>\n<p>The offences were committed on October 4, 2015. The case was heard on June 9, 2016.<\/p>\n<p>It is easy to buy a rod licence. You can purchase <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/fishing-licences\/when-you-need-a-licence\">online<\/a>, in person or by phone from the Post Office. Tel 0344 800 5386, or yearly direct debit with the Environment Agency. Tel 03708 506 506 or email <a href=\"mailto:enquiries@environment-agency.gov.uk\">enquiries@environment-agency.gov.uk<\/a>. It costs \u00a327 for a non-migratory trout and coarse fish licence or \u00a372 for a salmon and sea trout licence. An annual licence runs from April 1 \u2013 March 31.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Somerset fisherman who gave a false name when asked to produce his rod licence is tracked down and fined.<\/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\/71875"}],"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=71875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71875\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}