More than 300 vehicles and vessels checked for fishery violations

Eight teams of federal fishery officers fanned out across Vancouver Island on a single day this month in the largest coordinated crackdown of its kind, checking hundreds of vehicles, boats and coolers for violations of Canada’s fishing regulations.
The Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) says the July 19 operation was the first time it had run simultaneous roadside inspections at this scale on the Island, pairing its officers with the RCMP, the B.C. Conservation Officer Service, infor