Illinois
Illinois man sentenced in Kentucky to a year in caviar sale
PADUCAH, Ky. (AP) — An Illinois man has been sentenced to a 12 months in jail after admitting he illegally caught sturgeon and bought the fish roe to a caviar distributor in Tennessee.
Officers mentioned 44-year-old Daniel Allen of Brookport, Illinois, pleaded responsible to violating the Lacey Act, which makes it unlawful to move and promote fish that have been taken in violation of state regulation or regulation.
The federal prosecutor’s workplace says the shovelnose sturgeon have been caught out of season utilizing illegally sized mesh nets alongside the Ohio River on the Kentucky-Illinois border.
The prosecutor’s workplace mentioned Allen additionally caught sturgeon close to the Smithland Lock and Dam in an space closed to business fishing.