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Hudgins resident sentenced on violation of federal fishing law

Jeffrey S. Adams, 41, of Hudgins, was sentenced last week in U.S. District Court to 180 days home confinement with electronic monitoring, followed by three years of probation, for violating the Lacey Act by trafficking in illegally harvested striped bass.

U.S. Attorney Neil H. MacBride said Adams’s corporation, Adams Fishing Adventures, Inc., was sentenced to three years’ probation. One of the conditions of the probation is the requirement to acquire and maintain vessel monitoring units, used by regulatory organizations to monitor fishing vessels, on all vessels owned or operated by them.

Adams and Adams Fishing Adventures pleaded guilty to violation of the Lacey Act in the U.S. District Court in Norfolk on Jan. 19. The Lacey Act, among other things, makes it unlawful for any person to transport, sell, receive, acquire or purchase any fish or wildlife taken, possessed, transported or sold in violation of any law or regulation of the United States.

According to a ple...

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