Four men from the US have been handed severe punishments for over-fishing on Rice Lake, near Peterborough.
The men, two from Tennessee and two from Pennsylvania pleaded guilty to the charge of over-fishing and packaging the fish to conceal that.
The charges were laid after Ministry of Natural Resources Officers checked their cooler while they were leaving a Rice Lake cottage and found 49 walleye, 33 more than they were allowed to have between them.
The group was fined a total of $11,900 and all four are banned from angling in Ontario for the next three years.
