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Family fined $70,000 over black market rock lobster sales


Family fined $70,000 over black market rock lobster sales
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Lobster seized in the operation.
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A family from the WA Midwest fishing community of Leeman has been ordered to pay more than $70,000 in fines and costs after selling 76 black market Western Rock Lobster to undercover officers during an operation between June 2018 and April 2019.
Key points:
Magistrate says sales were 'intentional' and for profit.
Trio charged after 10-month undercover operation.
Ronald George Dennis, 67, his wife Lorna Frances Weeks, 67 and their son Ronald Francis Dennis, 29 pleaded guilty to charges of intentionally or recklessly contravening a provision of a management plan.

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