2 men banned from fishery for life for poaching

Two Talbot County watermen have been convicted of poaching and selling almost $500,000 worth of striped bass over four years.

The two men, Michael D. Hayden Jr. and William J. Lednum of Talbot County, have been banned for life from the fishery they poached, a suspension of all commercial fishing activity for a year and a four-year probationary period in all other fisheries.

In 2015, the men were sentenced to prison time and $40,000 fines. The two are responsible for $498,000 in court-ordered restitution to the state of Maryland for their illegal fishing.

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