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Article: JOINT FEDERAL, STATE INVESTIGATION STOPS ILLEGAL FISHING IN CHANNEL ISLANDS SANCTUARY
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- August 22, 2009
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 21 -- The U.S. Department of Commerce's National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration issued the following press release:
The owners and operators of the commercial fishing vessel Risa Lynn will pay a $10,000 civil penalty as a settlement for illegally fishing in a marine protected area off the Santa Barbara coastline in the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary.
Over a two-week period in March 2008, federal and state investigators detected the Risa Lynn setting fishing gear in the Footprint Marine Reserve, south of Anacapa and Santa Cruz islands. The reserve is one of several federally designated no-take fishing zones for commercial or recreational fishermen.
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