The San Francisco District Attorney's Office filed a lawsuit last week against a man accused of trapping nearly 300 Dungeness crabs in protected waters.
Tam Van Tran, a licensed commercial fisherman, allegedly set more than 90 traps in protected waters near the Farallon Islands off the coast of San Francisco, officials said. The D.A.'s office seeks nearly $1 million in fines against Tran.
Prosecutors called the illegal fishing "the most egregious case of unlawful crabbing activity in San Francisco's history, as well as the largest incident of documented unlawful commercial crabbing in any Marine Protected Area in California."
