Poaching catch of half a centner of salmon seized by police in Kamchatka
Police have opened a criminal case against a resident of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky who illegally fished 146 kg of salmon, the KAMCHATKA-INFORM agency was informed by the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in the Kamchatka Territory.
They said that a non-working citizen caught 41 individuals of chum salmon and eight individuals of chinook salmon with the help of a housing network in the area of Khalaktyrsky beach. The damage caused to the aquatic biological resources of the Russian Federation amounted to about 335 thousand rubles.
The fish was seized and placed in safe custody.
The poacher is charged with Part 3 of Article 256 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation “Illegal extraction (fishing) of aquatic biological resources”. The sanction of the article provides for up to five years in prison.