Southern Alberta motocross club fined $70,000 for killing threatened trout

LETHBRIDGE- A motorcycle club has been fined for a race that saw bikes roar through creeks, killing or endangering fish including the threatened Westslope Cutthroat Trout.

The Brooks Motocross Club and a member of its executive were both found guilty last December of contravening the Fisheries Act and Species at Risk Act.

Provincial court Judge Jerry LeGrandeur fined the club $45,000 and David French, its executive director, $25,000.

The club and French contravened the acts by allowing motocross bikes to race through streams in the Racehorse Creek area of Crowsnest Pass in August of 2014.