This makes me sick, some guy goes and kills 3 bighorn sheep and a deer without a licence. I dont know why the news calls him a hunter when he is nothing but a scumbag poacher. A hunter buys a licence and follows the bag limits and regulations in the hunting synopsis. The fines and punishment were appropriate, but could have been steeper. Jail time could have been an option. He will not be allowed to hunt for 5 years,a 10 year ban would have been acceptable.
Nanaimo hunter fined $17,000 for killing bighorn sheep
Times Colonist
Published: Tuesday, March 04, 2008
A Nanaimo man has been ordered to pay more than $17,000 for killing three California bighorn mountain sheep and one white-tailed deer.
Walker Rook Addison, 38, pleaded guilty at Grand Forks provincial court in the B.C. Interior to four counts of hunting mountain sheep without a species licence, exceeding the annual bag limit for mountain sheep, hunting white-tailed deer without a licence and using licences which did not belong to him.
Addison was fined $400 and ordered to make a payment of $17,000 to the Habitat Conservation Trust Fund.
He was also ordered not to hunt for five years and to surrender the sheep and his crossbow