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FISHERMAN COPS $3,000 IN FINES

A 35-year-old commercial fisherman from Green Point, near Forster, has been caught using crab traps and fishing nets unlawfully.

He was fined a total of $3,000 and convicted of five separate offences which occurred on Wallis Lake and two other local waterways.

The fisherman was charged with unlawfully using a meshing net and crab traps, interfering with set fishing gear and possession of prohibited size fish.

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