{"id":504468,"date":"2026-02-28T03:58:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T03:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/504468\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T03:58:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T03:58:09","slug":"snapping-turtle-hunting-scarborough-man-fined","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/504468\/","title":{"rendered":"Snapping turtle hunting: Scarborough man fined"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Ontario\u2019s Ministry of Natural Resources has fined a Scarborough man after he was found to be illegally hunting snapping turtles in the town of Dorchester.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">In a <a href=\"https:\/\/news.ontario.ca\/en\/bulletin\/1007094\/individual-fined-for-illegally-hunting-snapping-turtles\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/news.ontario.ca\/en\/bulletin\/1007094\/individual-fined-for-illegally-hunting-snapping-turtles\">release on Friday<\/a>, the ministry said the Ontario Court of Justice heard that from July 15, 2023, to Aug. 5, 2023, members of the public found several snapping turtles attached to fishing lines at Dorchester Mill Pond Conservation Area. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">On Aug. 4, a conservation officer reportedly found a man at the conservation area who was in possession of equipment used to hunt turtles, according to the ministry. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A tote was seized and samples taken from the tote were confirmed to contain snapping turtle DNA.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The case was heard in a London, Ont., court on November 6, 2025, and the ministry said Ying Wen Chen pleaded guilty to unlawfully hunting game reptile without a licence. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He was fined $4,000 and received a court order to forfeit all items seized during the investigation to the Crown.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cSnapping turtles are considered game reptiles, however there is no open season or valid hunting licence for the species in Ontario, meaning it is illegal to hunt snapping turtles at any time in the province,\u201d the ministry said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ontario\u2019s Ministry of Natural Resources has fined a Scarborough man after he was found to be illegally hunting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":504469,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[712,43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-504468","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-apple-news","9":"tag-headlines","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-top-news","12":"tag-top-stories","13":"tag-topnews","14":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=504468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504468\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/504469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}