Businessman busted with out-of-season conch

Shubin Yu

The Belize Fisheries Department was on routine checks at restaurants in the Ladyville area when they busted a restaurant owner in possession of conch.  Shubin Yu, the owner of Benny’s Restaurant, was caught with the out of season seafood. This afternoon, Yu who was unrepresented, appeared in the Belize City Magistrate’s Court to answer to a charge of possession of conch during the closed season. Yu pleaded guilty and was fined five hundred dollars for the offense and an additional twenty dollars for each piece of conch, as a first offender. In total, Yu paid one thousand one hundred dollars for the three parcels found with diced conch.   He appeared unrepresented before Magistrate Leslie.