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A Thunder Bay and Napanee resident are both facing fines following a hunting trip north of Upsala.
Last October a conservation officer was conducting moose hunting enforcement in the Pakashkan Lake area and determined that the Thunder Bay resident had shot at a moose just before the end of legal hunting hours but was unable to locate the moose.
The resident was licensed to hunt cow moose but the next morning he discovered that the moose he shot was a bull moose, which he was unlicensed to hunt.
Instead of reporting the error to a conservation officer, he sought out another hunter, from Napanee who invalidated his bull moose tag by using it on the moose to conceal the illegal harvest.
The group of two then contacted the investigating officer and falsely informed the officer that he had been unable to locate the moose.
Further investigation revealed the two had not been party hunting following the regulations and the moose was seized.
As a result of the investigation, the Thunder Bay resident pleaded guilty to hunting bull moose without a licence, knowingly making a false statement to a conservation officer and being party to the offence of unlawfully invalidating a tag for an animal killed by another person and was fined $7,250.
The Napanee resident pleaded guilty to unlawfully invalidating a tag for an animal killed by another person and for possessing illegally killed wildlife and was fined $2,500.
