A LANCASHIRE based company has been fined £7,500 and ordered to pay costs of £1558.70 after a boat it owned was caught fishing for scallops in a prohibited area.
Jones Trawlers Ltd, of Siding Road, Fleetwood was also asked to pay a victim surcharge of £170 towards the victims of crime.
The case was brought by the General Counsel for Wales for a single breach of the Scallop Fishing (Wales) Order 2010.
The offences took place between November 15 and November 17.
The solicitor attending for Jones Trawlers was Andrew Oliver.
The company was given credit by way of a discount in the fine for its early guilty plea.
The defendant company was ordered to pay £2000 per month starting May 17, 2019.
