If further proof was necessary of the sanctity of the Great White Shark, and I doubt it is, well here y’go.
A little over a week ago, a Western Australian judge gave hell to an Albany deckhand who posted photos of himself surrounded by the carcasses of two Great Whites that had been caught in the boat he was crewing on’s nets.
Tyrone Leigh Harding, who is thirty four, pleaded guilty to one count of taking a protected fish in April 2019 after he and his skipper James Stewart Tindall pulled in the two Great Whites after they became tangled in their gill net in April, 2019.
The judge suspended Harding’s fishing license for one year and fined him twelve-and-a-half-gees. Magistrate Dianne Scaddan described the pair posing with the Great Whites as “barbaric” and “vulgar”, two hitherto unknown offences.
The skipper, James Tindall, who fronted court on April 1, has been fined twenty gees and had his fishing license suspended for his transgression; a little rich, I think, considering both animals were dead before they were pulled on deck.
Fisheries officers were put on the case after someone reported finding severed sharks in a nearby river one month later.
Cops got onto Harding, searched his joint, found the jaws, the photos and the videos.
Harding’s defence lawyer said Harding and Tindall were three-and-a-half clicks off the coast when the Great Whites got caught in the nets.
Cutting the net away from the Whites, he said, would’ve risked the crew’s safety and the net would’ve drifted into the ocean, environmental nightmare etc, so the pair dragged ‘em in, cut ‘em up, souvenired the fangs.
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My guess is that these two won’t break this particular law again. What were the minimum and maximum penalties under this law? Was the maximum penalty exceeded? Surely the skipper was aware of the law. As I’m not a commercial fisherman, how would cutting the nets have endangered the crew? I sure as hell don’t believe the crew was worried about any environmental impact from cutting the nets. Also taking selfies was probably not a good look in regards to sentencing. “Look at me in front of 2 dead protected species! Cool isn’t it?!” That part was VERY Trump Jr…. minus the coke.
I’m thinking it was because they kept the jaws that got them the long sentences. Abalone here in Nor Cal. Not a racist I don’t think, but fuck asian immigrants that pillage and deplete our wildlife illegally when they move here.
Pillage abalone in the morning and hit the Napa Indian casino in the evening….at least according to documentary I saw a few years ago.
What is it with Vietnamese people, gambling and abalone? Trifecta. Drove past the casino every day in rohnert park for two years
posting shit online is so rad and so personally beneficial. and totally, at no point, is the participant diminished by the spectacle. i swear.
Oh, so the sharks died of covid?!?
There is more to this story than whats published in the newspaper.
Why were the fins found inland
Why did the skipper plead guilty to lying.
The jaws weren’t found, but the newspaper said they did.
Market value, five hundred dollars for a white shark tooth. Not sure how many teeth there are in each shark but thats a lot of money if you keep the jaws. They have a conveyor belt of teeth. Rows upon rows.
Yeah this don’t make sense.
How could they get a search warrant, pretty thin.
He’d‘ve got off if he cut them in to little pieces.
or if he’d been chinese soup-maker
The top Horse trainer here, Gordon Elliot, just got canceled and banned for six months for sitting atop a dead horse! Well in truth he got banned for his stupidity!
Deckhand and Dickhead are all so close
That judge is vulgar and barbaric.
Let’s hope he gets bit in half while on holidays with his 15 year old boyfriend
How do you celebrate Easter in Australia Bex. We have brunch with our family. Salmon and champagne. It’s a new beginning a time for rebirth. A time to watch my mother get drunk and stuff her purse with salmon at the twenty dollar a plate restaurant.
We go to the St Kevin’s Church at Dee Why for the mass in Tagalog as there are many Pinay in the area.
I take a valium and zone out and then hit the buffet afterwards then go back to bed
Hey man I read your message
Youre right but people take advantage of that freedom and don’t use it responsibly.
That why you need both sides of politics, don’t get rid of the opposition
You’ll only suffer for it
Peace.
I like freedom I don’t want the government telling me what to do in my life. If I want to get some mushrooms or grow weed in my yard I feel like I should be able to do that, and thankfully I can in California.
America especially in the west is about letting the Individual make their own decisions and I don’t know if that makes me a democrat or a republican.
I am a responsible person but like you said many are not, and freedom of choice is going to lead to their own destruction. Thats the conundrum.
Should the government look after you? I think not.
Well there’s a big push to crush the GOP, by any means.
Mostly hyped up bullshit.
I’m confident you guys won’t fall for the hard left big govt going forward
I care about my local community and for the most part Washington knows nothing about what going on in my hometown. Never liked big government or laws period.
Republicans used to be for small government but now I’m not so sure.
It’ll be interesting to see what’s what when all the bullshit settles, if it ever does.
Very rough sentence
It’s not like he was selling baby dolphin steaks
But criiiiikey boys, ya could’ve been a bit more careful with the disposal, and photos of any crime are just a bloody no-no…
Smart phones ruin everything you see. I hold them accountable for the death of the nude run also.