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  • 10 accused of poaching, marketing hundreds of thousands of dollars of walleye from Red Lake, Leech Lake reservations

    Larry Hageman, Bemidji Pioneer|Apr 11, 2013

    MINNEAPOLIS – Federal prosecutors have filed indictments against 10 people accused with illegally poaching and marketing hundreds of thousands of dollars in walleye and other protected fish on the Red Lake and Leech Lake Indian reservations. The four indictments charge each of the men with one count of transportation, sale, and purchase of fish taken in violation of the Lacey Act, according to a news release issued Wednesday by the United States Attorney’s Office in Minneapolis. The Lacey Act, originally signed in 1900, is a conservation law...