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| Fishermen jailed over scam fine | Fishermen jailed over scam fine |
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| Two Kilkeel-based fishermen have been jailed for not paying a confiscation order over landing "black fish". | Two Kilkeel-based fishermen have been jailed for not paying a confiscation order over landing "black fish". |
| Charles Leslie McBride was jailed for two months and his son, Charles Hubert, for three at Liverpool Crown Court. | Charles Leslie McBride was jailed for two months and his son, Charles Hubert, for three at Liverpool Crown Court. |
| They were fined £370,000 after being convicted of landing illegal quotas of fish in 2007. They appeared in court for not paying the outstanding balance. | |
| The men appeared in the BBC Scotland series Trawlermen, about the lives of fishermen in Peterhead. | The men appeared in the BBC Scotland series Trawlermen, about the lives of fishermen in Peterhead. |
| The 2007 they, and another County Down fisherman - Leslie Clifford Girvan - were ordered to pay back more than £1m which they netted through the quota scam to the Assets Recovery Agency. | |
| Charles Leslie McBride, 55, his 36-year-old son Charles Hubert McBride, both Cromlech Road, and Leslie Clifford Girvan, 65, of Rooney Road, had admitted several specimen charges in January 2007 of landing fish stocks in excess of their permitted quotas. | Charles Leslie McBride, 55, his 36-year-old son Charles Hubert McBride, both Cromlech Road, and Leslie Clifford Girvan, 65, of Rooney Road, had admitted several specimen charges in January 2007 of landing fish stocks in excess of their permitted quotas. |
| The three fishermen, and two Kilkeel-based fish-selling firms of which they were directors, had made more than £15m from the criminal conduct. | |
| The quota prosecutions were brought by the Marine and Fisheries Agency after the detection of inaccurate fish landing declarations involving 12 fishing vessels, some of which were owned and controlled by the men from January to October 2003. | The quota prosecutions were brought by the Marine and Fisheries Agency after the detection of inaccurate fish landing declarations involving 12 fishing vessels, some of which were owned and controlled by the men from January to October 2003. |