If you don’t think courts take poaching seriously, think again.
Fines of hundreds of thousands of dollars, federal prison time, forfeiture of airplanes and trucks, and more have all been given to a single person for poaching.
Outdoor Life has compiled the 50 largest poaching fines in history. It’s amazing what some of judges have handed down to the guilty.
This is what needs to happen so others will think twice about poaching.
Poaching gives all hunters a bad name, and throughout history there have been some incredible poaching cases. To highlight the hardwork of wildlife officials, OL put together a list of the greatest poaching fines in U.S. history. The list is ranked in order of largest fine (at the end of the gallery there are poachers who served jail time but did not recieve any fines).
$120,000 fine; three-year hunting ban on its ranch; levied in 2005 against the Edwin L. Cox, Sr. Trust for baiting migratory waterfowl for five years its ranch in Anderson County, Texas… [continued]
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