Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Bait Smugglers Fined


Two United States residents have been fined a total of one-thousand dollars for attempting to smuggle live bait into Ontario.

The men, one from Iowa and another from Hibbing, Minnesota, tried on separate occasions this past summer to bring leeches through Canada Customs entry point on Sand Point Lake.

In both cases, the bait was seized by Customs officers and turned over to Ministry of Natural Resource conservation officers.