GW: Now here’s some teeth in conservation law.  Just don’t know why other authorities don’t place similar penalties for overt violators.

A Riverside County man was fined more than $20,000 and sentenced to a week in jail for poaching lobsters inside a marine protected area (MPA). This is the first resource crime conviction since the MPAs off theSouthern Californiacoast went into effect on January 1, 2012. Read more