#Fishing - Out-of-date safety equipment has seen a Cork trawler skipper and owner landed with €4,000 in fines, as RTÉ News reports.
Pat O'Mahony of Kinsale and the Crosshaven-based Labardie Fisher Ltd pled guilty at district court in a case taken on behalf of the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport.
The former was convicted of having expired distress signals and hydrostatic life raft releases on his fishing trawler on 5 October last year.
Meanwhile, the trawler owner was fined on a charge of arriving in port with expired distress signals, and for failing to send the port superintendent a signed crew manifest as of 28 May last year.
The court heard that both skipper and owner, who lost 12 days of fishing during the investigation, co-operated fully during the process.
RTÉ News has more on the story HERE.