Duo charged and fined after shooting moose from motorboat: MNR

Two people were charged and fined after hunters shot a moose from a boat.

Spencer Palmer of Stevensville near Niagara Falls and Logan Bauer of Fort Erie pleaded guilty to illegally discharging a firearm from a motorboat and illegally possessing killed wildlife.

Both were fined $3,700 and given a one-year suspension of all species hunting licenses.

The court heard that on October 9, 2023, conservation officers conducted aerial patrols to monitor the moose hunt and found Palmer and Bauer in possession of a bull moose.

The Department of Natural Resources' investigation revealed that the bull moose was shot by Palmer from a motorboat while Bauer was piloting the motorboat. The duo were on the Patten River north of Cochrane at the time.

The bull moose was subsequently confiscated by the officials.

Justice of the Peace Jean-Marie Blier heard the case remotely at the Ontario Court of Justice in Cochrane earlier this summer.