A southern Ontario man has been handed a six-year hunting ban and fined $13,000 for illegal moose hunting in the Ignace area.
The penalties were announced by the province on Friday, after the man was found guilty of hunting a bull moose without a licence and transporting wildlife that was unlawfully killed when the case was heard in a Sioux Lookout court in June.
The court heard that the man was hunting in the Ignace area on Oct. 19, 2019 when he harvested a bull moose. The moose was taken to southern Ontario, where it was processed.
The case was investigated by conservation officers after being initiated by provincial police and involved witness statements, a search warrant and DNA analysis.
