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Three companies have been fined a total of up to $2.2 million in Masset provincial court on 10 counts under the federal Fisheries Act related to logging practices resulting in “complete devastation” and “wanton disregard” for fish habitat on Haida Gwaii.

Judge Michael Brecknell fined Howe Sound Forest Products Ltd. $300,000 plus $800,000 toward fish management or fish habitat on Haida Gwaii. The firm is also prohibited from entering into contracts for the purchase or sale of logs or carrying out logging or related road construction for five years starting March 1. Howe Sound dissolved in 2013.

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I. Crosby Contracting Ltd. is fined $180,000 plus $400,000 toward fish or habitat, and prohibited from carrying out logging or related road construction for six months starting March 1.

Gwaii Wood Products Ltd. is fined $120,000 plus $400,000 toward fish and habitat — with the potential to have the latter fine waived based on a land transfer to a non-governmental conservancy organization.