Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries agents cited two Slidell residents for alleged commercial red snapper violations occurring over a one-year span in Plaquemines Parish.
Agents cited 49 YO William Curry and 49 YO Pamela Bertucci for four counts each of failing to maintain traceable records and failing to report commercial fish data.
Curry also received his third, fourth, and fifth offense for violating Individual Fishing Quota (IFQ) regulations pertaining to the commercial harvest of red snapper.
Bertucci was also cited for injuring public records and filing false public records.
The charges stem from three separate fishing trips in 2022 and 2023 when Curry reported to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) that he was landing an exact amount of red snapper while Bertucci filed state trip tickets with LDWF claiming it was a true and correct amount.
LDWF agents working a Joint Enforcement Agreement with NOAA weighed Curry’s red snapper catch that were in some instances several hundred pounds off from the weight reported to both NOAA and LDWF. The red snapper went undocumented and were not removed from the yearly quota allotted to Curry to fish in a given year. A total of 1,268 pounds of red snapper were found not included in weight reported to NOAA and LDWF.
