Ireland Crime

Named as

Victim

Offences

Possession of unlawfully captured wild salmon; obstructing a fishery officer

Where

Co. Clare

Reporting

1 report, 21 Jun 2022 to 21 Jun 2022

Outlets

clareecho.ie

• Man sentenced for possessing wild salmon and obstructing officer in Clare Possession of unlawfully captured wild salmon; obstructing a fishery officer · Co. Clare

  On the evening of 20 May 2021, 50-year-old James Mullane was found with a 12lb, 80cm four-year-old female wild salmon in the boot of his car beside the Inagh River in Castlequarter, Ennistymon, County Clare. IFI officer Bill Keane prevented Mullane from exiting his car and retrieved the dead salmon, which had died from blunt force trauma, from the river after Mullane threw it in. Mullane was convicted at Kilrush District Court in June 2022 of possessing the unlawfully captured salmon and obstructing the fishery officer. He was fined a combined €1,016 for the salmon offence and €100 plus €916 in IFI costs for the obstruction.

  Sentenced, 21 Jun 2022Victim · 1 report

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1. 21 Jun2022
   Sentencedclareecho.ie, in Man sentenced for possessing wild salmon and obstructing officer in Clare

   North Clare man convicted of possession of unlawfully captured high value wild salmon - Clare Echo

   victim, Bill Keane, male, irish (judged from name)Bill Keane♂IE

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