Man Facing Federal Fish Trafficking Charges - Boston News Story - WCVB Boston
BOSTON -- A Connecticut man is facing federal charges of trafficking and falsifying records for illegally harvested Atlantic striped bass.
An indictment filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Boston says Daniel Birkbeck, of North Stonington, harvested striped bass in Rhode Island waters after the state commercial fishing season closed.
The indictment says the 46-year-old, a licensed commercial fisherman in Rhode Island and Massachusetts, then transported those fish to a fish dealer in Massachusetts for sale during the 2009 and 2010 commercial fishing seasons.
The Lacey Act makes it a crime for a person to knowingly transport and sell fish in interstate commerce when the fish was taken or possessed in violation of state law.
Birkbeck faces a maximum penalty of five years in prison.
It was unclear if he had an attorney.
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