{"id":4566,"date":"2012-08-21T14:51:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-21T13:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldfishing.nfdtesting.uk\/icefish-conference\/2012\/08\/21\/great-slave-owner-violates-fisheries-act\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T23:48:29","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T22:48:29","slug":"great-slave-owner-violates-fisheries-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/news\/fisheries\/great-slave-owner-violates-fisheries-act\/","title":{"rendered":"Great Slave owner violates Fisheries Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mr Abbott was recently found guilty in Yellowknife Territorial Court, Canada, of breaching four regulations of the <i>Fisheries Act<\/i>. The owner and operator failed to register his commercial vessel, fished in a non-commercial fishing area, failed to meet the terms of licensing condition and left gear set unattended without being marked with a vessel registration number or the name of the owner.<\/p>\n<p>An investigation was launched by Fisheries and Oceans Canada, following a failed compliancy checks which were carried out in July 2011. Mr Abbott was unable to produce a commercial fishing logbook, fishing licence and his commercial vessel registration number at Great Slave Lake, Yellowknife.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian Wildlife Service and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police helped fishery officers to search Mr Abbott\u2019s vessel,<i>The Seabird<\/i>, the fish truck store front and his Jolliffe Island fish plant where they found over 1,500kg of illegally harvested fish and several related documents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brian Abbott, owner of Canada based Great Slave Fish Products Ltd, has been fined US$6,000 for violating the \u2018Fisheries Act\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4567,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-4566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fisheries"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4566"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4568,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4566\/revisions\/4568"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4566"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=4566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}