From the Alaska State Troopers:
Location: Naknek
Type: Update — illegal fishing, hindering prosecution
On 5/3/11 in Naknek District Court, Tim Allen Vardy, 55, and Linda Sue Vardy, 47, both of Lakewood, Wash., accepted plea agreements with the state. Tim Vardy pled guilty to a single count of hindering prosecution and was fined $2,000 with none suspended. He was also placed on probation for one year. All other charges were dismissed. Linda Vardy pled guilty to a misdemeanor charge of commercial fishing in closed waters and was fined $5,000 with zero suspended. Previously a third defendant, John R. Lane, 26, of California, pled guilty to a single charge of hindering prosecution. This case was initiated in July 2010 after a wildlife trooper on aircraft patrol of the Egegik commercial fishing district observed the F/V High Octane fishing in closed waters. Lane, at Tim Vardy's direction, used his body to attempt to obscure the vessel's Alaska Department of Fish and Game numbers to prevent identification and prosecution. Tim Vardy, the skipper and one of two permit holders, used a jacket to obscure the other ADF&G number.
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The state of Alaska needs to put some teeth into their laws! This is absurd.. $7000.00 fine makes it worth breaking the law..
ReplyDeleteTotally agree, from what I heard they were in excess of 500 ft over.
ReplyDeleteVardy is a habitual fishing criminal that makes it hard to make an honest living fishing near him. Throw the book at him (and her).
ReplyDeleteLots of people talking but none give names...
ReplyDeleteA real man takes what he wants( or stops what he doesn't).
Capt.Jack
F/V GrayMatter