November 2, 2016 — The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries says it busted a previous fisheries offender this weekend for taking undersized redfish, and booked him into the Plaquemines Parish jail.
According to a department news release, agents made contact with Jonathan Ragas, 54, of Port Sulphur, Sunday near Azalea Drive. When Ragas saw the agents approaching, he picked up a five-gallon bucket containing an unknown number of redfish, and threw most of them in the water, the release said. Agents quickly seized the bucket, and found it to still contain two redfish that were shorter than the state’s 16-inch minimum length requirement, according to the department.