Wednesday, November 27, 2013

Four Chignik salmon seiners charged

From the Alaska State Troopers:

Location: Chignik
Type: Commercial fish closed waters
On or about 11/14/13 Daniel C. Grunert, 26, of Chignik Lagoon, was served a summons to appear in Naknek District Court on a single count of commercial fishing for salmon in the closed waters above the Mensis line in Chignik Lagoon during the 2012 salmon season.

Location: Chignik
Type: Commercial fish closed waters
On 11/6/13 Kurt E. Grunert, 31, of Seattle, was served a summons to appear in Naknek District Court on 20 counts of commercial fishing in the closed waters above the Mensis line in Chignik Lagoon during the 2012 salmon season.

Location: Chignik
Type: Commercial fish closed waters
On 11/4/13 Billy S. Anderson, 56, of Soldotna, was served a summons to appear in Naknek District Court on a single charge of commercial fishing for salmon in the closed waters above the Mensis line in Chignik Lagoon during the 2012 salmon season.

Location: Chignik
Type: Commercial fish closed waters
On 11/2/13 Frank K. Grunert, 55, of Wasilla, was served a summons to appear in Naknek District Court on six counts of commercial fishing for salmon in the closed waters above the Mensis line in Chignik Lagoon during the 2012 salmon season.

4 comments:

  1. What is the story behind all these old violations? How are these guys getting violations months or years after the season ended?

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  2. Yeah, I don't get it..... it is not fair to either the charged individuals or the rest of the fishing fleet. It is a police ambush years after evidence is gone, i.e., doesn't give the fisherman any notice or opportunity to gather contemporaneous evidence to help prove their innocence, and if there isn't any exculpatory evidence that could have been gathered, then extremely unfair to those 2013 fishermen who had to once again compete with those fishermen that perhaps should not have been allowed to fish in 2013.

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  3. there need to be serious consequences if they keep doing it..

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