A Winnipeg man has been fined $1,500 for illegally exporting deer from Ontario.
Leonard Rivers was fined $750 for exporting the deer outside of Ontario without a permit and then fined an additional $750 for providing false information to a Ministry of Natural Resources conservation officer.
The court heard that on Nov. 18, 2012, Rivers was contacted by a conservation officer as he drove a truck with hunting equipment on Gundy Lake Road, near Kenora.
Rivers told the conservation officer he had not hunted that fall.
But the conservation officer learned that Rivers obtained a non-resident deer hunting licence on Oct. 13, 2012, and had harvested an antlered, white-tailed deer near Malachi Lake that same month.
The conservation officer also discovered that the man had butchered the deer and transported the meat to Manitoba via train.
Justice of the Peace Robert McNally heard the case in the Ontario Court of Justice in Kenora, Ont., on Nov. 5, 2013.
