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Updated: 12:00 AM EDT Jun 16, 2025

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Marissa Barrett

Digital Producer

MANCHESTER, N.H. —

Officials are working to return stolen fishing gear after a ship’s captain was convicted of poaching marine species.

New Hampshire Fish and Game said officers received a tip that led them to a ship docked in Newington, where they found ropes connected to stolen lobster traps.

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Inside the traps, officers found lobsters, crabs and blue mussels, including an egg-bearing lobster in one of the cages.

Fish and Game officials said the captain pleaded guilty to multiple charges, including lobster and crab fishing without a license, illegal possession of another’s lobster gear and possession of crabs, mussels and a lobster.

https://www.wmur.com/article/nh-poaching-conviction-stolen-traps-06152025/65069534