Description
A B.C. Supreme Court judge has banned Nanaimo fisherman Scott Stanley Matthew Steer from fishing for life.
Summary
- The sentence was delivered on Nov. 12, 2021, and it is the first lifetime ban for a Pacific region fisherman in more than a decade.
- Along with the lifetime ban, Steer’s sentence includes:A prohibition from being aboard a fishing vessel.
- Steer was caught illegally fishing for crab in the Vancouver harbour after Vancouver SeaBus officials tipped off police.
- In the past 30 years, he says, he has only seen one other lifetime ban in the Pacific region.
- “At some point, you just have to say enough is enough and here is your lifetime ban.”