Monday, July 5, 2010

32 Bristol Bay gillnetters accused of illegal fishing

From the Alaska State Troopers:

Location: Egegik
Type: Commercial fish closed period
On 6/24/10 David J. Sharp, 49, of Bellingham, Wash., was cited by Bristol Bay Wildlife Troopers for commercial fishing during a closed period in the Egegik District. Arraignment is scheduled for 7/14/10 in Naknek District Court.

Location: Egegik
Type: Commercial fish closed period
On 6/25/10 Everett L. Thompson, 34, of Naknek, was cited by Bristol Bay Wildlife Troopers for commercial fishing during a closed period in the Egegik District. Arraignment is scheduled for 7/14/10 in Naknek District Court.

Location: Egegik
Type: Commercial fish closed waters
On 6/26/10 James D. England, 49, of Olympia, Wash., was cited by Bristol Bay Wildlife Troopers for commercial fishing in closed waters in the Egegik District. Arraignment is scheduled for 7/14/10 in Naknek District Court.

Location: Egegik
Type: Commercial fish closed waters
On 6/26/10 Curtis Eugene Marble, 45, of La Conner, Wash., was cited by Bristol Bay Wildlife Troopers for commercial fishing in closed waters in the Egegik District. Arraignment is scheduled for 7/14/10 in Naknek District Court.

Location: Egegik
Type: Commercial fish closed waters
On 6/26/10 Allan D. Acheson, 54, of Everett, Wash., was cited by Bristol Bay Wildlife Troopers for commercial fishing in closed waters in the Egegik District. Arraignment is scheduled for 7/14/10 in Naknek District Court.

Location: Egegik
Type: Commercial fish closed waters
On 6/27/10 David L. Johnson, 54, of Seattle, was cited by Bristol Bay Wildlife Troopers for commercial fishing in closed waters in the Egegik District. Arraignment is scheduled for 7/14/10 in Naknek District Court.

Location: Egegik
Type: Commercial fish closed waters
On 6/28/10 Mark E. Edvardsen, 49, of Snohomish, Wash., was cited by Bristol Bay Wildlife Troopers for commercial fishing in closed waters in the Egegik District. Arraignment is scheduled for 7/14/10 in Naknek District Court.

Location: Egegik
Type: Commercial fish closed period
On 6/28/10 Clifford Farmer Black, 32, of Anchorage, was cited by Bristol Bay Wildlife Troopers for commercial fishing during a closed period in the Egegik District. Arraignment is scheduled for 7/16/10 in Naknek District Court.

Location: Egegik
Type: Commercial fish closed waters
On 6/28/10 Louis Hiratsuka, 70, of Dillingham, was cited by Bristol Bay Wildlife Troopers for commercial fishing in closed waters in the Egegik District. Arraignment is scheduled for 7/16/10 in Naknek District Court.

Location: Egegik
Type: Commercial fish closed period
On 6/28/10 Brian A. Newman, 23, of Petersburg, was cited by Bristol Bay Wildlife Troopers for commercial fishing during a closed period in the Egegik District. Arraignment is scheduled for 7/16/10 in the Naknek District Court.

Location: King Salmon
Type: Commercial fish closed period
On 6/27/10 Jack O. Bay, 64, of Beaverton, Ore., was cited by Bristol Bay Wildlife Troopers for operating a commercial drift gillnet in closed waters. Arraignment is scheduled for 7/15/10 in Naknek District Court.

Location: Egegik
Type: Commercial fish closed waters
On 6/28/10 Jeffrey V. Yeoman, 41, of Homer, was cited by Bristol Bay Wildlife Troopers for commercial fishing in closed waters. Arraignment is scheduled for 7/16/10 in Naknek District Court.

Location: Dillingham
Type: Commercial fish closed period
On 06/30/10 August M. Flensburg, 58, of Nikiski, was cited by Bristol Bay Wildlife Enforcement Troopers for commercial fishing during a closed period. Arraignment is scheduled for 7/12/10 in Dillingham District Court.

Location: Dillingham
Type: Commercial fish closed period
On 06/30/10 Arthur H. Johnson V, 24, of Dillingham, was cited by Bristol Bay Wildlife Enforcement Troopers for commercial fishing during a closed period in the Nushagak District. Arraignment is scheduled for 07/12/10 in Dillingham District Court.

Location: Dillingham
Type: Commercial fish closed period
On 6/30/10 Roscoe C. Schroeder, 37, of Dillingham, was cited by Bristol Bay Wildlife Enforcement Troopers for commercial fishing during a closed period south of the Nushagak section. Arraignment is scheduled for 07/12/10 in Dillingham District Cour.

Location: Dillingham
Type: Commercial fish closed waters
On 06/30/10, KJ Herman, 56, of Kodiak, was cited by Bristol Bay Wildlife Enforcement Troopers for commercial drift gillnet fishing in closed waters. Arraignment is scheduled for 7/20/10 in Dillingham District Court.

Location: Dillingham
Type: Commercial fish closed waters
On 6/30/10 Michael Vernon Anderson, 21, of Bow, Wash., was cited by Bristol Bay Wildlife Enforcement Troopers for commercial fishing in closed waters. Arraignment is scheduled for 07/20/2010 in Dillingham District Court.

Location: Ugashik
Type: Commercial fish closed waters
On 7/1/10 George R. Veneroso, 53, of Weatherly, Pa., was cited by Bristol Bay Wildlife Troopers for commercial fishing in closed waters in the Ugashik District. Arraignment is scheduled for 7/16/10 in Naknek District Court.

Location: Naknek
Type: Drift boat too close to setnet
On 7/2/10 Michael Ness, 56, of Seattle, was cited by Bristol Bay Wildlife Enforcement Troopers for minimum distance between commercial fishing gear. Ness operated the F/V Erin N when his drift gillnet became entangled with a setnet. Arraignment is scheduled for 7/15/10 in Naknek District Court.

Location: Naknek
Type: Vessel license
On 7/2/10 John Herrity, 42, of Elk Point, S.D., was cited by Bristol Bay Wildlife Troopers for commercial fishing from a vessel that was not licensed with the Commercial Fisheries Entry Commission. Bail was set at $210.

Location: Ugashik
Type: Commercial fish closed waters
On 7/1/10 Daniel S. Johnson, 62, of Anchorage, was cited by Bristol Bay Wildlife Troopers for commercial fishing in closed waters in the Ugashik District. Arraignment is scheduled for 7/16/10 in Naknek District Court.

Location: Ugashik
Type: Commercial fish closed waters
On 7/1/10 Isaac J. Thistle, 21, of Wasilla, was cited by Bristol Bay Wildlife Troopers for commercial fishing in closed waters in the Ugashik District. Arraignment is scheduled for 7/16/10 in Naknek District Court.

Location: Ugashik
Type: Commercial fish closed period
On 7/1/10 Mark E. Kurtz, 65, of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., was cited by Bristol Bay Wildlife Troopers for commercial fishing during a closed period in the Ugashik District. Arraignment is scheduled for 7/15/10 in Naknek District Court.

Location: Egegik
Type: Commercial fish closed water
On 6/30/10 John B. Hansen, 55, of Anchorage, was cited by Bristol Bay Wildlife Troopers for commercial fishing in closed waters in the Egegik District. Arraignment is scheduled for 7/16/10 in Naknek District Court.

Location: Egegik
Type: Commercial fish closed water
On 6/30/10 Nick Kailukiak, 32, of Toksook Bay, was cited by Bristol Bay Wildlife Troopers for commercial fishing in closed waters in the Egegik District. Arraignment is scheduled for 7/16/10 in Naknek District Court.

Location: Dillingham
Type: Commercial fish closed waters
On 7/1/10 Charles W. Treinen, 57, of Anchorage, was cited by Bristol Bay Wildlife Enforcement Troopers for commercial fishing in the closed waters upstream of the upstream line of the Igushik River salmon section. Arraignment is scheduled for 7/12/10 in Dillingham District Court.

Location: Dillingham
Type: Commercial fish closed waters
On 07/1/10 Nicholas R. Treinen, 18, of Anchorage, was cited by Bristol Bay Wildlife Enforcement Troopers for commercial fishing in the closed waters upstream of the upstream line of the Igushik River salmon section. Arraignment is scheduled for 7/12/10 in Dillingham District Court.

Location: Dillingham
Type: Commercial fish closed waters
On 7/1/10 Timothy Todd Stage, 50, of Homer, was cited by Bristol Bay Wildlife Enforcement Troopers for commercial drift gillnet fishing 500 feet south of the Nushagak District southern boundary line. Arraignment is scheduled for 07/20/10 in Dillingham District Court.

Location: Dillingham
Type: Commercial fish closed waters
On 7/1/10 Sergey Kutsev, 20, of Scott Mills, Ore., was cited by Bristol Bay Wildlife Enforcement Troopers for commercial fishing in closed waters south of the south line in the Nushagak section. Arraignment is scheduled for 7/12/10 in Dillingham District Court.

Location: Dillingham
Type: Commercial fish closed waters
On 7/1/10 Timothy Erofeeff, 20, of Scott Mills, Ore., was cited by Bristol Bay Wildlife Enforcement Troopers for commercial fishing in closed waters south of the south line in the Nushagak section. Arraignment is scheduled for 7/12/10 in Dillingham District Court.

Location: Dillingham
Type: Commercial fish closed waters
On 7/2/10 Nicholas Downs, 30, of Homer, was cited by Bristol Bay Wildlife Enforcement Troopers for commercial fishing in closed waters. Arraignment is scheduled for 7/20/10 in Dillingham District Court.

Location: Dillingham
Type: Commercial fish closed waters
On 7/2/10 Thomas Bursch, 46, of Homer was cited by Bristol Bay Wildlife Enforcement Troopers for commercial fishing in closed waters. Arraignment is scheduled for 7/20/10 in Dillingham District Court.

5 comments:

  1. What's the deal - the best fishing is in closed waters - anyone can tell you that.

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  2. Looks like a lot of guys drifted over the line and/or didn't get their nets out of the water fast enough. Same old story.

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  3. Funny how many of these folks are members of PSVOA.

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  4. Looks like the teflon must be finally wearing off the Seahunter.

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  5. fishing in closed waters is to protect the stock for future fishermen for your grandkids ect.

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