{"id":83097,"date":"2017-07-31T13:37:33","date_gmt":"2017-07-31T13:37:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=5b2f6e6521362672ebbfee9e5b0535a8"},"modified":"2017-07-31T13:37:33","modified_gmt":"2017-07-31T13:37:33","slug":"news-story-merchant-ordered-to-pay-4700-for-buying-fish-while-unregistered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=83097","title":{"rendered":"News story: Merchant ordered to pay \u00a34,700 for buying fish while unregistered"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Representatives of Dockside Ltd, a company that owns a wet fish shop in Fleetwood, Lancashire, were ordered to pay \u00a34,715.27 by Blackpool Magistrates Court on 26 July 2017.<\/p>\n<p>The company pleaded guilty to purchasing first-sale fish directly from a fishing boat other than as a registered buyer, contrary to regulation 8 of the Registration of Fish Buyers and Sellers and Designation of Fish Auction Sites Regulations 2005.<\/p>\n<p>The court heard how the Marine Management Organisation acted after being made aware the company had been purchasing fish from a number of vessels without being a registered buyer with the MMO. Upon investigation marine officers found the company had purchased \u00a318,487 of fish between April 2014 and September 2016 while being an unregistered buyer of first-sale fish.<\/p>\n<p>The company was fined \u00a32,000 and ordered to pay an additional \u00a32,545.27 in costs and a victim surcharge of \u00a3170.<\/p>\n<p>The Registered Buyers and Sellers Scheme is designed to help ensure that fish is traceable from net to plate and to monitor and protect fish stocks. The MMO has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/uploads\/system\/uploads\/attachment_data\/file\/519845\/Illegal_fish_leaflet.PDF\">produced a guide<\/a> on the regulations for buying and selling fish.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lancashire company pleads guilty to buying fish without appropriate MMO registration<\/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\/83097"}],"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=83097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83097\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}