A Northland man has been sentenced to five months' home detention for selling an estimated $10,000 worth of illegal paua via Facebook.
Dwayne Edward Rawiri, of Omapere, was sentenced in the Kaikohe District Court on Monday on 31 charges under the Fisheries Act brought by the Ministry for Primary Industries.
Most of the charges related to selling and offering to sell paua via Facebook posts between September and December 2015. He also offered to sell paua and crayfish by text message.
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Wellington paua poacher's home detention near Whangarei Harbour
Three charges were laid after he was busted in March 2016 coming back from a dive with more than three times the daily paua limit, some of which were undersized, and more than two times the daily limit of kina. Many of the paua were taken from Kawerua, on the west coast south of Hokianga Harbour.