An American hunter pleaded guilty to four charges under the Saskatchewan Wildlife Act and Regulations and was fined $7,139 in provincial court in Swift Current.
David Hamby of Townville, South Carolina was convicted of two counts of unlawfully purchasing a Canadian resident deer license, unlawfully using another person’s license and unlawfully exporting wildlife without an export permit. In addition to the fines, he was suspended from hunting for one year and seized items were ordered forfeited to the crown.
The charges were laid as the result of an investigation by the Ministry of Environment. Conservation officers determined that the hunter had unlawfully purchased Canadian resident white-tailed deer licences in 2009 and 2010 and had harvested a deer with each licence in southern Saskatchewan.
The 2009 deer was illegally exported without a license and the 2010 deer was unlawfully tagged using a Saskatchewan resident deer license. Read more….