THUNDER BAY -- A Florida man has been fined $2,350 for fishing offences in Northwestern Ontario.
Richard Pierce, of Clermon, Fla., was fined $1,600 for possessing eight walleye over his sport fishing licence limit and $750 for possessing fish packaged so they could not be readily counted.
The incident occurred on June 16.
Conservation officers with the ministry of natural resources and forestry conducted an inspection at a lodge on Lac Des Mille Lacs, west of Thunder Bay.
The packages of walleye and pike had been frozen in a manner to conceal the walleye fillets.
