{"id":77232,"date":"2016-12-14T10:06:00","date_gmt":"2016-12-14T10:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=011a0f69fe399ebeb4e1a118e6671255"},"modified":"2016-12-14T10:06:00","modified_gmt":"2016-12-14T10:06:00","slug":"news-story-master-and-owner-fined-21746-for-fisheries-offences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=77232","title":{"rendered":"News story: Master and owner fined \u00a321,746 for fisheries offences"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Worthing Magistrates Court heard how, in November 2015, the vessel was inspected by Marine Management Organisation (<abbr title=\"Marine Management Organisation\">MMO<\/abbr>) marine enforcement officers at Shoreham and a quantity of scallops below the minimum conservation reference size of 110mm were found amongst the vessel\u2019s catch. On further inspection it was revealed that 8.09% of the entire catch was below the prescribed legal size, which equated to some 2.65 metric tonnes of scallops which were undersized that had been retained.<\/p>\n<p>The court sentenced Mr Poland to a fine of \u00a31,400, together with a contribution to the costs of the prosecution of \u00a3150 and a statutory victim surcharge of \u00a3100. Macduff Fishing Fleet Limited was fined \u00a316,409 and ordered to pay \u00a33,567 towards the costs of the prosecution, and a victim surcharge of \u00a3120.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesman for the <abbr title=\"Marine Management Organisation\">MMO<\/abbr> said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Whilst 8.09% of the entire catch seems like a low percentage, the total quantity in live weight of 2.65 metric tonnes is very large and the impact on the stocks is potentially considerable. By taking this enforcement action the <abbr title=\"Marine Management Organisation\">MMO<\/abbr> has acted to help ensure that this vessel was not able to profit from retaining and landing undersized fish.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">The <abbr title=\"Marine Management Organisation\">MMO<\/abbr> wants to protect the large majority of fishers who take great efforts to put processes in place to ensure that undersized shellfish are not landed. The penalty applied sends a strong message that landing undersized catch is a serious offence and one which can result in considerable fines.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 9 December 2016 the master and owner of the fishing vessel Honeybourne III PD905 pleaded guilty to breaching fisheries regulations.<\/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\/77232"}],"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=77232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}