ANCHORAGE, Alaska – A former aide to U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski who had worked as a commercial fisherman while sitting on the council that regulates fishing off Alaska's coastline was sentenced Tuesday to five months in prison for falsifying his own fishing reports.
U.S. District Court Judge H. Russel Holland said the real crime that Arne Fuglvog, 48, committed was not monetary but to the reputation of the North Pacific Fisheries Management Council, whose primary responsibility is the management of groundfish in the Gulf of Alaska, Aleutian Islands and the Bering Sea.
Fuglvog also was ordered to pay a $50,000 fine and provide the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation $100,000 to improve fish habitat in the Gulf of Alaska where he had a commercial fishing operation.
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