Image Credit: Facebook / B.C. Conservation Officer Service

By James Peters

Fish and Game Check

Thanksgiving weekend fish and game check in Cache Creek leads to 77 tickets

Oct 20, 2022 | 2:28 PM

CACHE CREEK, B.C. — Dozens of hunters and anglers were not giving thanks after passing through Cache Creek over the Thanksgiving long weekend.

In a post to social media, the B.C. Conservation Officer Service (BCCOS) says it teamed up with RCMP, the Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) and wildlife health biologists from the Ministry of Forests to conduct a three-day game and fish check in Cache Creek from October 8 to 10.

More than 1,400 hunters and fishers were subject to the checks, with officers issuing more than 200 enforcement actions.

Officers inspected 2,200 fish and game, including:

• 241 moose
• 157 deer
• 1,239 upland birds
• 530 fish, including 140 trout

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The officers also inspected more than 1,400 guns.

Forty-eight provincial violation tickets were issued, as well as 29 tickets for federal infractions and 125 written warnings. The BCCOS says the most common violations involved lack of evidence of sex or species.