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  2. BC Moose Riders Fined

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    They have been fined $8K but I think it should be double that.

     

    https://www.theweathernetwork.com/news/articles/man-who-rode-moose-under-investigation/53226/

     

     

    Saturday, March 4, 2017, 2:08 PM - Two men from British Columbia have been convicted of harassing wildlife and now face thousands of dollars in fines in connection with a moose riding video that surfaced online two years ago.

    The footage posted to YouTubein June 2015, shows a shirtless man in plaid shorts on a motorboat as it approaches a moose in a shallow body of water that was later identified as Tuchodi Lakes, which is located about 120 km southwest of Fort Nelson. The man then appears to jump on the animal's back for several seconds before falling off. Others can be heard laughing on the boat.

    The video was posted by B.C.-based group Wolftracker TV and has since gained over 2 million views. The person behind Wolf Tracker, identified only by that handle, told the Calgary Sun he spotted the video on a Facebook profile, and saved it before the original post was deleted.

    The Conservation Officer Service launched an investigation after receiving a public complaint. A report was submitted to Crown counsel recommending charges against two males from Fort St. John.

    In June 2016, Bradley Crook and Jaysun Pinkerton, were charged with three counts under The Wildlife Act including, harassing wildlife with the use of a boat, attempting to capture wildlife and hunting big game that is swimming.

    On Friday, the men were convicted and ordered to each pay $4,000 in fines, which included a $2,000 payment each to the Habitat Conservation Trust Foundation.

    A member of the B.C. Conservation Service David Vince told CBC the incident was "the ultimate form of harassment."

    "You can see that the moose is struggling with that fellow on her back," he told the news agency. "You can see the fright in her eyes."

     

  5. The Cops found it.

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    BTW, don't necessarily expect a broker to go to bat for you. There's no money in it for them. You need to deal directly with the insurer and be persistent.

     

     

     

    This is untrue. Every time I have had issues with insurance companies my broker bent over backwards to help me out.

    In the 90's I was in a roll over accident caused by road damage caused by a tornado. The insurance company was going to hold me responsible but after my broker got through with them I wasn't blamed for the accident, I got a few $K more than I paid for my vehicle (they wrote it off) and I was treated like gold.

     

    If you have a broker that won't go to bat for you, change brokers 'cause yours sucks!! ;)

  13. OFAH vs Town of Port Hope

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    the charter boat guys they have there customers come at 5 fish till 11 clean fish for free and pack them up and those people are headed back to city or province with out spending a dime . the garbage cans are filled with non English speaking products so not only was it not purchased here but it was dumped here .

     

    I guess they have free charters in Pt. Hope.

    I was unaware of that.

    Next time I'm down in the summer I'll make sure to go out on one of them.

  18. OFAH vs Town of Port Hope

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    Not sure where you get that $50 million figure from Dave, since the town's entire annual budget is barely $18 million. And according to the feds, the major economic impact of fishing is in the form of high-ticket purchases like lodge trips, major tackle items, trucks and boats. If you pull them out of the mix, the economic impact of fishing for all of Ontario is about $27.8 million. For the most part, guys who go to the Ganny bring all their equipment with them, and go home at the end of the day. They might go buy a burger on the way home, but that's about it. So with all due respect man, I very much doubt that the economic impact of snagging salmon in town is anywhere close to that kind of amount.

     

     

     

    It won't. But the money will help offset the cost of having to clean up the stinking mess a couple of times each week. If you've never smelled Port Hope in the fall then I envy you.

     

    Beyond that, the provision to ban fishing at night at least gives the police something to charge people with when they see them down there at 2:00 am and up to no good. It's almost impossible to get a conviction on a snagging charge these days, since you can't prove intent. Even gutting the fish for eggs and leaving the carcass to rot can be argued in court, since all they can charge you with there is allowing fish suitable for human consumption to go to waste, and it's up to the officer to prove the fish is fit to eat. But if you can't fish from sunset to sunrise, and you're caught down there in the middle of the night, it's cut and dry. You're nailed.

     

    Listen, I don't like the idea of this any more than anyone else does. But instead of griping at the town, people should be directing their anger at the hooligans who are responsible.

     

    Personally, I believe OFAH is way off base here. They should be working with the town to find a permanent solution - not siding with the poachers.

     

    And please - threaten to quit stocking Atlantics? Who cares? So returns of Atlantic salmon drop from zero to ..... what, then?

     

    OFAH really needs to rethink their position on this issue.

     

    I read an article about it last week.

    It was written that the economic impact of the Credit River fishery is approx $48M and it was estimated due to the larger number of anglers fishing the Ganny that the economic impact it had was higher than the Credits.

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