Big Fish Story Ends in Angler’s Arrest
A man who caught a 300-pound Atlantic sturgeon could be sentenced to a year in prison and fined $1,000, officials said.
Ron Mann was charged Monday with fishing without a commercial license and illegally setting a net. Wildlife officials were also upset because the sturgeon was female and the roe was lost.
Mann, 24, of South Berwick, caught the fish in the Salmon Fall River. He described it as the “catch of the day, the year, the century.”
But his bragging caught the ears of local officials. They arrested him and called in the Maine Marine Patrol, which seized the fish.
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