A man's been fined 50-thousand dollars for selling seaweed online, illegally
A man's been fined 50-thousand dollars for selling seaweed online, illegally
1 October 2025
Former commercial fisher Ryan Campbell McManaway's been sentenced in the Invercargill District Court on four charges under the fisheries act.
In 2022, fishery officers spotted a post advertising seaweed fertiliser, and after searches found thousands of litres - and an industrial mincer with seaweed still attached.
Fisheries says the illegal operation could have earned McManaway thousands of dollars.
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