Warden Wire: Citizen tip brought warden's biggest fishing case; Walleye online chat Thursday
Warden Volenberg's 'biggest, most complex' commercial fishing case
Warden Ryan Volenberg did not avert from the diverter way back when the citizen tip first came in, nor did he shy from the paper maze of the audit. Six years later, Volenberg’s sea legs are dockside and his eyes are no longer cross-eyed from carrying out an investigative plan that ended in a Manitowoc County Circuit Court on September 9 with more than $15,000 fines and more than 30 convictions of fishing violations against the Susie Q Fish Company of Two Rivers, one owner and one employee. “We’re talking significant numbers of fish taken over the course of every year – for years – out of Lake Michigan,” Volenberg says. MORE
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