{"id":87459,"date":"2017-12-19T13:49:43","date_gmt":"2017-12-19T13:49:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=9a2a1242825eee61d0777f224161e5e0"},"modified":"2017-12-19T13:49:43","modified_gmt":"2017-12-19T13:49:43","slug":"news-story-fish-merchant-fined-for-fisheries-offences-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=87459","title":{"rendered":"News story: Fish merchant fined for fisheries offences"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Geoffrey Blake, trading as Ventnor Haven Fisheries in the Isle of Wight, was sentenced at Portsmouth Magistrates\u2019 Court on 11 December 2017 in a prosecution brought by the <abbr title=\"Marine Management Organisation\">MMO<\/abbr>.<\/p>\n<p>The court heard how the company, a registered buyer of first sale fish, failed to submit 369 sales notes in either electronic or paper form to the <abbr title=\"Marine Management Organisation\">MMO<\/abbr> within 48 hrs of the landing taking place between 25 February 2016 and 1 September 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Blake pleaded not guilty but was convicted by the court and ordered to pay a fine of \u00a3500, costs of \u00a3500 and a victim surcharge of \u00a350.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for the <abbr title=\"Marine Management Organisation\">MMO<\/abbr> said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The requirement to submit sales notes within 48 hours enables the <abbr title=\"Marine Management Organisation\">MMO<\/abbr> to gain an accurate picture of fish stocks on which to base its fisheries management decisions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">When, as in this case, sales notes are not submitted that picture becomes partial, distorted or inaccurate. This prosecution shows that the <abbr title=\"Marine Management Organisation\">MMO<\/abbr> will take the appropriate enforcement action to prevent such a situation occurring.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fish merchant charged with fisheries offences in case brought by the Marine Management Organisation (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\/87459"}],"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=87459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87459\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}