Every now and then throughout the year, Manitoba Natural Resources and Northern Development releases bulletins detailing encounters that Manitoba conservation officers have had with the public.
The most recent one includes an interesting story involving a man biting his own fishing line and chucking it in to the Red River.
On Friday, July 21st, a conservation officer from Selkirk noticed two men fishing along the Red River in an area where there are signs saying that fishing is prohibited. As the officer approached the men, one of them grabbed his line and attempted to break it. The officer then told the man to stop, but he did not. Instead, he bit his fishing line and threw it into the river.
The two men, from Illinois, USA, were fined $486 for fishing in a prohibited area marked by signs. The man who threw his line into the river was given an extra $2,542 fine for obstructing a peace officer.
In a separate incident stemming from early May, conservation officers in Winnipeg were made aware of an individual who was shooting geese with a .22-calibre rifle in the city's St. Vital area. Officers caught up with the man at his residence where two Canada goose carcasses and the rifle were seized as evidence. A 23-year-old Winnipeg man is charged with two counts of a firearms offence and several charges under the Wildlife Act.
Read more in the lastest conservation update.
