$5 Fine For $10,000 Of Illegal Fish
April 11, 2006 @ 07:47 AM (EST)
Source: Theadvertiser.com.au
CAUGHT red-handed with $10,000 worth of Australian fish, a group of illegal Indonesian fishermen faced South Australian justice and were fined - just $5.
Despite the maximum penalty being 5500 times that much, an Adelaide magistrate took pity on the fishermen and handed out a fine that wouldn't even pay for a handful of prawns for Easter Sunday lunch...
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