{"id":81201,"date":"2017-05-11T13:07:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-11T13:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=365740b7829f21ac320391d8a317e284"},"modified":"2017-05-11T13:07:00","modified_gmt":"2017-05-11T13:07:00","slug":"press-release-fine-of-24414-for-fisheries-offences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=81201","title":{"rendered":"Press release: Fine of \u00a324,414 for fisheries offences"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>On 5 May 2017 Macduff Fishing Fleet Limited, owner of the scallop dredger \u201cCornelis Gert Jan\u201d and its three masters Pawel Czerniak, Oliver Hughes and Robert Watt pleaded guilty to breaches of the Sea Fish Conservation Act 1967 at Worthing Magistrates Court.<\/p>\n<p>The court heard how the vessel was permitted to retain non-quota species as a bycatch of its main catch of scallops. However, it had fished on a number of occasions in an area known to contain mixed species where a bycatch of quota species was inevitable.<\/p>\n<p>Investigations by the <abbr title=\"Marine Management Organisation\">MMO<\/abbr> identified that \u00a36,000 worth of sole and anglerfish had been landed by the vessel in the period between 5 May 2015 and 26 November 2015. This was in breach of the vessel\u2019s licence.<\/p>\n<p>While it was acknowledged that the company had provided landing data in the form of log sheets and sales notes electronically during the period, the <abbr title=\"Marine Management Organisation\">MMO<\/abbr> system would not necessarily pick up on potential breaches of licence conditions. The Court accepted that it was, in any event, incumbent on the masters and owners to ensure they did not retain any species on their vessel which were prohibited by their licence.<\/p>\n<p>Macduff Fishing Fleet Limited (vessel owner) were fined \u00a312,000, with an additional fine of \u00a36057.67 to the value of the fish involved in the offending, costs of \u00a34,758.75 and a victim surcharge of \u00a3120.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Hughes (vessel master) was fined \u00a3580, Mr Watt (vessel master) was fined \u00a3678 and Mr Czernia (vessel master) was fined \u00a3220.00. These fines included a victim surcharge.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vessel owner and masters plead guilty to fishing offences at Worthing Magistrates Court in case brought by MMO.<\/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\/81201"}],"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=81201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}