Notorious Gabriola Island fisheries violator jailed following late night boat chase
NANAIMO — A banned angler with a lengthy and damning history of flouting fishery laws received a six-month jail sentence after he was caught red-handed in Vancouver Harbour.
Scott Stanley Matthew Steer, 44, was sentenced last month in BC Supreme Court in Vancouver following his conviction on five charges earlier this year.
Steer and two accomplices aboard a boat in Burrard Inlet were spotted by fisheries officers and pursued in the early morning hours of March 2, 2020.
The unlicensed Steer was arrested aboard the vessel containing 250 illegally-caught live crabs captured out of season, Justice Peter Edelmann determined.