$1,000 FINE FOR ROTTEN DEER MEAT

[Some Old Guy 968]

Golden, Colorado man has been fined $1,000 for allowing the flesh of a game animal that was hunted to become unsuitable for human consumption.

The man, who owns recreational cottage property in Godson Township in the Nestor Falls area, plead guilty under the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Act. He has also been banned from hunting for a year.

On November 7, 2007, the man killed a buck deer in Matthieu Township in Wildlife Management Unit 7B. He did not gut the deer because he did not have knives with him. He retrieved the deer the next morning but didn’t gut it until early evening. When Ministry of Natural Resources Kenora District conservation officers inspected the deer on November 9, 2007, the meat smelled bad and the interior cavity had turned green.

The case was heard in Ontario Court of Justice, Kenora on March 27, 2008.