2 charged after moose shot from side of TCH
Slew of charges laid right across Newfoundland as moose hunting season begins
Officers in central Newfoundland were called Friday to investigate complaints of hunting along the Trans-Canada Highway and vehicles in the way of traffic
Fish and wildlife enforcement officers based in Gander apprehended two men from Wareham, Bonavista Bay after a moose was shot on the side of the TCH shortly after midnight on Saturday.
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The incident happened a few kilometres east of Gander.
Officers charged the men with hunting during a closed time, use of an artificial light to hunt big game and shooting from a highway.
Police confiscated a moose, two rifles and ammunition, two big game licences, tags and a knife.
The men were released to appear in provincial court in Gander at a later time.
On the same day, fish and wildlife enforcement officers in Grand Falls-Windsor investigated several hunting violations.
Subsequently, a man from Harbour Breton was charged with killing a wrong sex moose near the Bay d'Espoir Highway and a man from Twillingate was charged with killing a moose in the wrong management area.
In those cases, two moose, rifles, an all-terrain vehicle and hunting paraphernalia were seized.
Charges of transporting a loaded firearm in a vehicle and discharging a firearm from a roadway were laid by fish and wildlife officers in Clarenville, Stephenville and Roddickton.