A B.C. man with the lengthiest record of fisheries violations in Canadian history has been sentenced to six years in prison and fined $1.1 million for illegally harvesting sea cucumbers and flouting a fishing ban.
Scott Steer and the corporation he is jointly accused with 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 that prohibited him from owning fishing vessels, a B.C. Supreme Court judge said in his July 25 ruling. Steer was also accused of falsifying records and using his co-accused “sham” corporation to hide his involvement.
