C32 - Total loss of power!

[Kim and Ed]

Here’s a warning to all anglers in the Northwest. You can fish your limit but best to stay within it. These knuckleheads thought otherwise and all gear including the boats engines was confiscated along with fines and fishing ban. Too bad for them it was their new C32. Sometimes there is justice.
Ed/

https://vancouverisland.ctvnews.ca/angl ... -1.5381661

 

[bob daily]

As Grandma always said "The Stupid shall be punished"
Bob

 

[Brian B]

No sympathy here. Good for Canada for having very strict laws. When this happens in Rhode Island the fine is minimal and they go out and do it again. Those that poach are stealing natural resources from the rest of us.

 

[snydzy]

Wow! That one hell of a trailer under that C32..!

 

[baz]

Justice indeed. Silly, silly people.

To learn the errors of their ways, the authorities should have, IMO, insisted on some additional form of community service and some purposeful educational course(s). Imposing fines and confiscating property is not enough to convince people their behaviour is unwarranted.

 

[Someday*]

How do they come up with the forfeiting of the engines? ...what do they do if it were an inboard?

 

[GaylesFaerie]

From viewing the picture there is at least one small outboard on the stern. So maybe it is used for trolling and hence the forfeiting. Maybe there is a second small outboard motor out of view. GF

 

[Kim and Ed]

Here are more details on this story. They did indeed have to forfeit the main engine and the kicker all fishing gear as well as significant fines and costs.
Ed/

https://www.campbellrivermirror.com/new ... -20-years/

 

[knotflying]

I bet the Mounties enjoyed a nice fish dinner that night! :lol:

 

[bjp447]

Curious - how much over the limits were they?
Articles said that was the most serious case they had seen
so what exactly is serious
That is some serious fines ?

 

[Cutwater28GG]

. Officers also confiscated 26 Chinook salmon, 18 rock fish filets, eight ling cod filets and 10 bags of salmon roe that weighed approximately 24 kilograms

i believe there were 3 people aboard and only 1 with a license.

 

[FlyMeAway]

How do they come up with the forfeiting of the engines? ...what do they do if it were an inboard?

If I remember my admiralty law class, seizing a documented vessel becomes complicated. Seizing the engines is easier. I would guess they gave the owners a choice between coughing up cash and forfeiting the engines, and they didn't have the additional cash to cough up.

If it were an inboard, they might have had to seize the entire vessel (and deal with associated complexities) in lieu of fine. But, I also don't know Canadian Maritime law (and the interplay with International maritime law, given the documented vessel) and whether or under what circumstances it would even be possible to seize a documented vessel as punishment for fishing violations.

Most international maritime law is designed for complex commercial circumstances and not recreational boaters.

Anyway, I suspect there will be an engineless C-302 for sale in WA in the near future... These were three assholes who deserved everything they got, and then some.