Herlen Vernon Lynch, 63, and Darnell Galen Lynch, 58, both of Centreville, were charged Nov. 11 after Maryland Natural Resources officers checked their harvest from Broad Creek off the Choptank River and found bushels containing anywhere from 6 to 30 percent undersized oysters.
Herlen Lynch was fined $950, plus court costs. Darnell Lynch was fined $1,000, plus court costs.
Last year, Herlen Lynch, who also works as a Kent Narrows head boat captain, was charged with operating a passenger vessel without required safety equipment and failing to have the appropriate licenses during a joint NRP and Coast Guard patrol. Lynch was fined $500 in Queen Anne’s District Court and was placed on probation until April 29, 2016.
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It appears as though the fines were nothing more than part of the cost of doing business to these guys.....
That fine is a joke. They should go to jail.
Exactly, 744. The fines need to be such that they "encourage" compliance. $950? The guy probably makes that off a single morning of poaching oysters.
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