A Leamington commercial fishing company and boat captain have pleaded guilty to allowing fish to spoil and have been fined a total of $3,500.

Conservation officers got a tip in early August that spoiled fish had been seen in a commercial trap net on the northwest side of Pelee Island.

An investigation found two trap nets with hundreds of pounds of spoiled fish, a Windsor judge heard when the case went to court Monday.

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