Lake Simcoe perch poachers have been fined $4,000

A pair of Lake Simcoe perch poachers have been fined $4,000.
Minh Hung Nguyen, 33, and Minh Thanh Tran, 77, were found guilty and both fined $2,000 for catching and keeping more than the legal limit of yellow perch for Lake Simcoe.
The case was tried in Newmarket on Sept. 4. The court heard that on Aug. 19, 2006, Aurora District conservation officers, a deputy conservation officer, and an officer from the York Regional Police Marine Unit observed two men angling from a boat on Lake Simcoe.
The two men had several buckets of perch in the boat. When the officers counted the fish, they found the men had 130 yellow perch over the limit.
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