British Columbia Sea Cucumber Poacher Gets Six-year Sentence for 'Ravaging the Ocean'
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A British Columbia judge has sentenced a man with the longest record of Fisheries Act violations in Canadian history to six years in prison for "ravaging the ocean and flouting the law."
Scott Steer and his co-accused corporation faced eight charges including fishing in a closed area without a licence, selling more than $1 million worth of illegally harvested sea cucumbers and breaching an earlier order forbidding him from possessing fishing vessels.
Steer's co-accused in the case was a numbered...
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