TWO MEN FINED $2,500 FOR ILLEGAL MOOSE

[Some Old Guy 968]

Two Dryden men have been fined $2,500 after pleading guilty to illegal moose hunting.

The first man was fined $1,500 for hunting a bull moose without a licence and $500 for illegally possessing a bull moose. He is also banned from hunting for one year.

The second man was fined $500 for illegally attaching a moose tag and validation seal to an animal when he was not a member of a hunting party.

On October 7, 2007, the first man shot and killed a bull moose and a cow moose, although he was only licensed to hunt for a cow or calf moose. He then had the second man help him drag the animals out of the bush. When the man discovered that the second man had a bull moose tag, he pressured him to attach it to the moose to legitimize the kill. The second man did so reluctantly.

However, at the time the man shot the moose, the men had not agreed to be members of a hunting party, and the man was unaware that the second man had a bull moose validation tag. After an investigation, conservation officers from the Dryden district office of the Ministry of Natural Resources laid charges against the two men.

The case was heard in Ontario Court of Justice, Dryden, on September 16, 2008.