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Epic fish fight finally settled in court BY PAUL J. HENDERSON phenderson@chilliwacktimes.com
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Patricia Kelly had more than 200 court appearances in nine years over Fisheries Act charges.
Sto:lo woman’s nine-year fight over a few hundred sockeye salmon has ended with an absolute discharge and a payout for most of the fish confiscated. After more than 200 court appearances since 2004, B.C. Chief Justice Thomas Crabtree granted Patricia Kelly an absolute discharge in Chilliwack court May 9. Crabtree also ordered Kelly to be paid $2,482, the value of more than 90 per cent of the fish confiscated from her on the Fraser River nearly nine years ago. Kelly was charged in 2004 with “purchasing, selling and possession of fish against the fisheries act.” She pleaded not guilty and after a long
“How does a woman from our community become a criminal for practising her right to fish?” Grand Chief Doug Kelly court battle was convicted on July 3, 2008. She then put forth an aboriginal rights defence, which she was in court trying to prove since that time. According to Kelly—who defended herself since her conviction—her fight, which she says is about the very nature of aboriginal rights and title, has led her to become homeless and penniless. “I’ve suffered politically, socially, emotionally, economically,” she told Crabtree during her telephone court appearance on May 9. She asked Crabtree to use the “widest discretion possible” and said
she now wanted the matter behind her so she could continue “being a mother and go back to work.” Crown prosecutor Finn Jensen had asked for a conditional discharge and a “modest fine” as a sentence for the 2008 fisheries act conviction. Kelly asked for an absolute discharge and repayment for 276 of the 296 fish confiscated in 2004, since the court only proved 20 of those fish were caught outside of the legal opening. Crabtree concluded that it was not against the public interest to grant Kelly her discharge and payment for the lost fish.
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The case garnered considerable interest in the Sto:lo community and the broader First Nations, particularly after Kelly’s mug shot appeared in a June 12, 2009 Crime Stoppers advertisement in theTimes. “How does a woman from our community become a criminal for practising her right to fish,” Grand Chief Doug Kelly (no relation to Patricia) said in July 2009. Sto:lo Nation president Chief Joe Hall agreed. “There’s got to be a more fair way of dealing with these issues rather than turning well-meaning and honest people into what’s being perceived as hardened criminals,” Hall said in 2009. Kelly did not return the Times’ request for a comment before going to press.
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