Used net to fish in lake
A LITHUANIAN man has been fined after he admitted using a net to fish in a freshwater lake and has now given up fishing for good.
Eduard Markovsky, 14 O'hare's Mill, Nicholas Street, Dundalk, was before Dundalk District Court last week on foot of a summons issued by Inland Fisheries Ireland. He admitted to fishing in a freshwater lake with a net and also to using a boat to aid the commission of offences.
A fishing inspector told Judge Flann Brennan how on September 4th, he went to Anna, near Inniskeen, and Markovsky and another man fishing on a lake. The inspector confiscated a bag of fish, which included pike and also took the boat.
A solicitor told the court that Markovsky had been living in Ireland for four years and wasn't aware that what he was doing was wrong.
The solicitor said her client, who has no previous convictions, regretted the incident and ' he never intends to fish again'.
Solicitor for the Inland Fisheries, Finnian Brannigan, said the costs in the case were €1094 as ' there had been some work to effect the summons, which was personally served by the fisheries inspector' and added Markovsky was co-operative.
Judge Brennan fined him €200 and ordered him to pay costs of €1094.
