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Show LanbrcoEiing hunters face stiff fines Utah Division of Wildlife Resources Law Enforcement Chief Jim Ware warns deer hunters about violatingwild-life violatingwild-life laws and cites examples of severe penalties imposed against lawbreakers. "We are particularly interested in-terested In apprehending violators who are reducing the resource, "says Ware. Several so-called "com -mon" violators are actually a type of poaching. "There is no party hunting," hunt-ing," emphasizes Ware. "Everyone must harvest his own deer. Everyone buys an opportunity to hunt and others shouldn't help him with this opportunity. Our officers of-ficers have ways of detecting this type of violation." A person who shoots a deer for another person faces a fine of up to $1000. Ware also stressed the importance of properly tagging tag-ging an animal. The deer must be tagged at the site of kill before being transported. trans-ported. The tag must be detached de-tached from the licsense, notched for the date of kill and sex of the animal and attached securely to the animal. ani-mal. Failure to tag may result in up to a $1000 fine. |