A northern Ontario man is going through a $12,000 superb after illegally capturing a moose close to the Batchawan River in October 2021.
Timothy Junor of Echo Bay had a member of the Indigenous group close to Annie Lake falsely declare they’d killed a bull moose below their Indigenous harvesting rights to cowl up his unlawful kill on Oct. 18, based on conservation officers.
Conservation officers initiated their investigation after finding a suspicious moose kill web site in Norberg Township, the Ontario Ministry of Pure Sources and Forestry (MNRF) mentioned in a information launch.
“Junor was looking for moose in an outdated forestry reduce block. Junor was half of a bigger searching social gathering that was solely licenced to hunt calf moose,” mentioned MNRF officers.
“Upon getting into the reduce block, Junor noticed two bull moose working alongside the hillside and fired a spherical from his rifle at one of many bull moose, killing it.”
After killing the moose, Junor instructed the courtroom, he returned to a hunt camp on Annie Lake the place he organized for a member of the realm’s Indigenous group to assert the moose was shot below their harvesting rights to cowl up his unlawful kill.
“Junor returned to the kill web site with the Indigenous individual, processed the moose and transported it again to the hunt camp,” mentioned ministry officers.
“The next day, the Indigenous group member transported the moose to a butcher store in Thessalon the place they once more claimed that they shot the bull moose below their Indigenous harvesting rights.”
Junor pleaded responsible to unlawfully searching a bull moose and not using a licence and was fined $12,000.
Justice Sarah Keesmaat heard the case within the Ontario Courtroom of Justice in Sault Ste. Marie, on June 17.
An Ontario Ministry of Pure Sources conservation enforcement automobile with lights flashing. (Equipped/MNRF)
“The Ontario authorities is safeguarding moose populations by making certain hunters don’t cowl up unlawful searching actions,” the ministry mentioned.
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