Three hunters have been fined a total of $12,500 for moose hunting violations near Marathon.
Ontario's Ministry of Natural Resources says a hunter from Stoney Creek pleaded guilty to unlawfully invalidating his hunting tag for an animal killed by another person and was fined $2500, while a hunter from Levac pleaded guilty to hunting moose without a licence and was fined $1000, and another from Levac pleaded guilty to hunting moose without a licence and careless hunting, fined a total of $9000 - he's also been given a one-year hunting licence suspension and must retake both the Canadian Firearms Safety Course and the Hunter Safety Education course before applying for or obtaining a new licence.
The charges date back to last October, when conservation officers attended a hunting camp outside Marathon, finding the two from Levac were actively hunting moose together despite having never purchased a licence to hunt moose - investigation also revealed one even shot a moose, so they contacted the third individual who was hunting close by, and he came and tagged the moose illegally.