Several hunters fined

Two Wisconsin hunters have been fined $4,700 after pleading guilty to night hunting and careless hunting.
Lyndon Stunkel, 38, of Keenan, and Joseph Adomaitis, 37, of Hudson, have each been fined $2,000 for careless hunting and $350 for night hunting.
Stunkel is also suspended from hunting for 18 months and Adomaitis is suspended for one year. Both men must successfully complete a hunter safety course before obtaining an Ontario Hunting Licence.
On November 6, 2002, Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR) Dryden District Conservation Officers saw the men as they were traveling on Wabigoon River Road, 10 kilometres north of Vermilion Bay. Stunkel, the passenger in the vehicle, fired a rifle across Adomaitis, the driver, out of the driver’s window and shot at a buck deer decoy. The incident happened in the early morning, 15 minutes before legal hunting time started.
Justice of the Peace Edith Baas heard the case in the Ontario Court of Justice in Dryden on December 17, 2002.
Red Lake - Six hunters from southern Ontario and two from the Red Lake area have been fined $7,500 for a variety of moose hunting violations.
Wayne Jobson, 48, of Madsen, Gundolf Maerz, 41, of Cochenour, both in the Red lake area along with Guy Haggith, 47, of Port Lambton; and LEnny Dionne, 49, Blake Dionne, 21, David Turner, 50, Trevor Tuner, 23, and William Henderson, 73, al of Wallaceburg, have pleaded guilty to charges under the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Act.
Haggith also received a two-year hunting suspension and permanently forfeits his firearm. Maerz is suspended from hunting until November 15, 2003.
The court was told that Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR) Red lake District Conservation Officers charged the men after a cow moose had been illegally shot and tagged and a calf moose had been illegally tagged near Red Lake in October 2001.
Officers stopped the men, who were all members of the same hunting party, at a check station in Sault Ste. Marie, which led to further investigation by MNR Red Lake District Conservation Officers with the help of MNR Chatham District Conservation Officers.
Justice of the Peace Marg Pasloski heard the case in Ontario Court of Justice on December 13, 2002 in Red lake.
The public is encouraged to help protect its natural resources by reporting violations to the local MNR office or to Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS(8477).