Illegal conch case back on track
The case of the conch and the co-op is apparently back on track. After a few missteps, the case was finally called today before Magistrate Earl Jones. Emile Arguelles will be representing the Northern Fishermen Cooperative, which on October twenty-fourth was found by fisheries officers to be in possession of over eleven hundred undersized conch. The case was adjourned until November twenty-eighth. A family of Sarteneja fishermen busted on the same day for similar conch violations has already been fined over forty-two thousand dollars. Prosecuting the case is fisheries inspector Errol Diaz.
