Showing posts with label lodge. Show all posts
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Friday, March 11, 2022
Monday, October 11, 2021
Pelican troller charged with multiple offenses
From the Alaska State Troopers:
Location: Pelican
Type: Fish tickets, intent to operate
On 9/28/21 Alaska Wildlife Troopers, Sitka Post, charged James Steven Daniels, 67, of Pelican, with three counts of failure to submit intent to operate and 10 counts of failure to complete fish tickets. The charges stem from an investigation which showed Daniels operated a commercial troll vessel, the F/V Pelican, on commercial fishing trips associated with Highliner Lodge out of Pelican from 2017 to 2020 and sold fish to clients directly without a fisheries business license and without completing any fish tickets. Daniels was subsequently charged with seven additional violations in 2021 for failing to imprint information on fish tickets as required and reporting sold fish as "personal use." Arraignment set in Sitka District Court.
Type: Fish tickets, intent to operate
On 9/28/21 Alaska Wildlife Troopers, Sitka Post, charged James Steven Daniels, 67, of Pelican, with three counts of failure to submit intent to operate and 10 counts of failure to complete fish tickets. The charges stem from an investigation which showed Daniels operated a commercial troll vessel, the F/V Pelican, on commercial fishing trips associated with Highliner Lodge out of Pelican from 2017 to 2020 and sold fish to clients directly without a fisheries business license and without completing any fish tickets. Daniels was subsequently charged with seven additional violations in 2021 for failing to imprint information on fish tickets as required and reporting sold fish as "personal use." Arraignment set in Sitka District Court.
Thursday, February 13, 2014
Ketchikan sportfishing lodge fined $8,000
From the Alaska State Troopers:
Location: Ketchikan
Type: Conviction
During the summer of 2013, Alaska Wildlife Troopers, Ketchikan Post, conducted an investigation into illegal sportfish activities at Clover Bay Lodge located on Prince of Wales Island. The investigation resulted in the lodge being charged for intentionally feeding bears, using the edible meat of sport-caught salmon as bait, furnishing sport-caught shellfish to clients, and taking overlimits of halibut. On 1/28/14 Clover Bay Lodge pled guilty on two misdemeanor counts of intentionally feeding bears, and using the edible meat of sport-caught king salmon as bait. The lodge was fined $8,000 and placed on probation for two years.
Location: Ketchikan
Type: Conviction
During the summer of 2013, Alaska Wildlife Troopers, Ketchikan Post, conducted an investigation into illegal sportfish activities at Clover Bay Lodge located on Prince of Wales Island. The investigation resulted in the lodge being charged for intentionally feeding bears, using the edible meat of sport-caught salmon as bait, furnishing sport-caught shellfish to clients, and taking overlimits of halibut. On 1/28/14 Clover Bay Lodge pled guilty on two misdemeanor counts of intentionally feeding bears, and using the edible meat of sport-caught king salmon as bait. The lodge was fined $8,000 and placed on probation for two years.
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Lodge owners cited on false residency claims
From the Alaska State Troopers:
Location: Sitka
Type: False statement on sportfishing license
On 1/28/12 Alaska Wildlife Troopers, Sitka Post, issued citations to Phillip and Gwen Younger, both 52, of Scottsdale, Ariz., owners of a local fishing lodge, for making false statements on applications for resident sportfishing licenses in Sitka. Investigation revealed that both individuals had obtained multiple sportfishing licenses while never qualifying as an Alaska resident and by making a false statement. Phillip Younger was cited with three counts of making a false statement with bail set at $930. Gwen Younger was cited with one count of making a false statement with bail set at $310.
Location: Sitka
Type: False statement on sportfishing license
On 1/28/12 Alaska Wildlife Troopers, Sitka Post, issued citations to Phillip and Gwen Younger, both 52, of Scottsdale, Ariz., owners of a local fishing lodge, for making false statements on applications for resident sportfishing licenses in Sitka. Investigation revealed that both individuals had obtained multiple sportfishing licenses while never qualifying as an Alaska resident and by making a false statement. Phillip Younger was cited with three counts of making a false statement with bail set at $930. Gwen Younger was cited with one count of making a false statement with bail set at $310.
Thursday, January 13, 2011
Southeast lodge nets $10,000 fine, probation
The Alaska State Troopers today issued the following press release:
Jan. 13, 2011
Alaska lodge guilty of sale of sport fish
JUNEAU — The Doc Warner's lodge near Juneau received a sentence today following a multiagency investigation beginning in the summer of 2009.
Doc Warner's lodge is an Alaskan limited liability corporation. Investigators with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration did an undercover operation at the lodge in 2009. Investigators were fed sport-caught fish as a part of the paid package during their stay. Employees of Doc Warner's admitted that fish fed to clients was sport-caught by other clients and/or employees.
Alaska law provides that no person may buy, sell or barter sport-caught fish or their parts. A violation of this law is punishable as a class A misdemeanor offense and a corporation that violates this law may be punished by a fine of up to $200,000 per offense.
NOAA turned the investigation over to state authorities for further investigation by Alaska Wildlife Troopers and prosecution by the Office of Special Prosecutions and Appeals.
The Office of Special Prosecutions charged Doc Warner’s Alaska Fishing Inc. with four counts of sale of sport-caught fish for the years 2006-2009.
On Jan. 13, 2009, the corporation entered a guilty plea to one consolidated charge of sale of sport-caught fish in violation of 5 AAC 75.015.
Judge Nave imposed the agreed upon sentence of a fine of $40,000 with $30,000 suspended, informal probation for a period of two years, with the conditions that the corporation commit no new law violations, including fish and game offenses.
Jan. 13, 2011
Alaska lodge guilty of sale of sport fish
JUNEAU — The Doc Warner's lodge near Juneau received a sentence today following a multiagency investigation beginning in the summer of 2009.
Doc Warner's lodge is an Alaskan limited liability corporation. Investigators with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration did an undercover operation at the lodge in 2009. Investigators were fed sport-caught fish as a part of the paid package during their stay. Employees of Doc Warner's admitted that fish fed to clients was sport-caught by other clients and/or employees.
Alaska law provides that no person may buy, sell or barter sport-caught fish or their parts. A violation of this law is punishable as a class A misdemeanor offense and a corporation that violates this law may be punished by a fine of up to $200,000 per offense.
NOAA turned the investigation over to state authorities for further investigation by Alaska Wildlife Troopers and prosecution by the Office of Special Prosecutions and Appeals.
The Office of Special Prosecutions charged Doc Warner’s Alaska Fishing Inc. with four counts of sale of sport-caught fish for the years 2006-2009.
On Jan. 13, 2009, the corporation entered a guilty plea to one consolidated charge of sale of sport-caught fish in violation of 5 AAC 75.015.
Judge Nave imposed the agreed upon sentence of a fine of $40,000 with $30,000 suspended, informal probation for a period of two years, with the conditions that the corporation commit no new law violations, including fish and game offenses.
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