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LA CROSSE, Wis. — Wildlife officials across the Great Lakes are looking for spies to take on an almost impossible mission: stop the spread of invasive carp.

State and federal wildlife agencies have developed a new weapon to slow down invasive carp across the Great Lakes region: traitor fish. Over the last five years, agencies have worked to capture invasive carp in Lake Erie and the Illinois and Mississippi rivers and implant them with transmitters.

Wildlife officials across the Great Lakes are looking for spies to take on an almost impossible mission: stop the spread of invasive carp.

Paul Hyde has been given a suspended prison sentence and fined €6,000 for failing to declare property interests. 

A former deputy chairman of An Bord Pleanála who was sentenced to a two month prison sentence earlier this year for making false or misleading declarations has avoided jail after successfully appealing the severity of the penalty imposed on him.

Judge increased the overall sentence from two months to three but suspended it in full and imposed fines totalling €6,000 at Cork Circuit Appeals Court

Former deputy chair of An Bord Pleanála appealed two month jail sentence handed down in June after guilty plea

Judge Colin Daly increased the overall sentence to three months but suspended it in full.

The defence had emphasised that Mr Hyde “was not involved in corruption despite what the keyboard warriors may say”.

Plan to rebrand body An Coimisiún Pleanála is part of effort to restore confidence in planning system