Police arrested a repeat offender yesterday after he was found with 38 undersized crawfish in his possession.<\/p>\n
Superintendent of fisheries at the Department of Agriculture and Fisheries, Clement Campbell said he received a call yesterday from a concerned citizen, notifying him that persons were spearfishing crawfish in the Grand Lucayan Waterway.<\/p>\n
The man was taken into police custody after officers from the Royal Bahamas Police Force Marine Division with Campbell on-board a Freeport Skiff caught up with the man yesterday afternoon.<\/p>\n
Campbell confiscated the illegal crawfish catch that he said would be frozen and stored until the matter goes to court.<\/p>\n
He noted that the individual arrested in the incident had been caught with undersized crawfish before.<\/p>\n
According to Campbell, just last week Saturday, he along with Royal Bahamas Defence Force officers were making their way from patrolling the Abacos when they encountered the same individual in the Grand Lucayan Waterway catching undersized crawfish.<\/p>\n
He said the man was simply given a warning, but days later he was caught again breaking the law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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