Lobster pound owner fined $100K for illegally selling First Nations catch
Posted: Dec 14, 2020 4:58 PM AT | Last Updated: December 14, 2020 Lobster pound owner Sheng Ren Zheng enters the courthouse in Digby, N.S., in January. (Steve Lawrence/CBC) The owner of a lobster pound in Nova Scotia and his company were fined a total of $100,000 Monday for illegally selling lobster harvested by First Nations. Shen Ren Zheng was caught shipping lobsters to China in 2017 that were harvested by a member of the Sipekne'katik band under multiple food, social and ceremonial licences in St. Marys Bay in southwest Nova Scotia. The licence conditions prevent the sale of the cat...
Source: cbc.ca