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An extensive surveillance operation by fisheries officers, ‘Operation Molten’ has resulted in three men from Melbourne’s outer south-east being fined a total of $8000 for exceeding the daily catch limit for abalone, concealing part of their catch and providing false information to fisheries officers, at two locations on the Mornington Peninsula, in the Frankston Magistrates Court on 19 September.
The legal daily limit for abalone is five per person. The men had taken double their legal entitlement.
One of the men was fined $2000, had his vehicle and all other equipment forfeited and was banned from fishing for abalone for 10 years. The other two men were each fined $3000, had their equipment forfeited and were placed on a prohibition order preventing them from fishing for abalone for one year.
Daily catch limits are in place to protect abalone stocks. Fishers who ignore the limits and provide false information to fisheries officers can expect significant penalties in the form of large fines, the forfeiture of vehicles and equipment and lengthy fishing bans.
簡而言之， 3個遠東南區的2B拿了2倍的合法數量，第一個罰了$2000+10年不得捕鮑， 後面2個各罰$3000+1年不得捕鮑。 一切做案工具包罗車輛都被沒收。
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