Conservation officers in the north were busy on the water and in the brush.
During a four-day jet patrol in Williston Lake near Mackenzie, officers checked 36 boaters and issued four violation tickets along with locating a pair of unattended campfires.
Offences included:
- Loaded firearms in a vessel
- Use of prohibited gear (barbed and treble hooks) in streams
- Open liquor in a public place
- Open liquor in a vessel
- Failure to have required safety equipment in a pleasure craft including: life jackets, sound signaling device, buoyant heaving line, and a water bailer
- Failure to produce ID under the Wildlife Act
Over the weekend, conservation officers from several regions issued nearly $22,000 in fines due to illegal fires.
Officers say residents claiming they didn’t know about the fire ban is not an acceptable excuse to start an illegal blaze.
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