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Fisherman handed lenient sentence

A man in Guangyuan, surnamed Jia, who was recently sentenced to five months in jail with a year reprieve for electrifying fish during a fishing ban, voluntarily purchased 30,000 young fish and released them into the wild on June 20. Jia, 52, was caught electrifying fish in a river in Jialingjiang on April 14, with police officers seizing a total of 71.64 kilograms of wild fish. The court said Jia received a lenient sentence for acknowledging that his initial behavior had damaged the environment, and showing willingness to correct his wrongdoing.