The skipper of an Iceberg Quest Ocean Tours boat charged — along with the company — for getting too close to a whale is not yet finished at provincial court, almost three years after the incident.

Walter Reddick, 63, was set to see his trial wrapped up Friday in St. John's but after six days — two in March and four this week – the court will now hear four more days of testimony in October.

Reddick, of Tors Cove, has been charged with disturbing a marine mammal under the Fisheries Act, the first time such charges have been laid in Newfoundland and Labrador.

The incident happened near Cape Spear at the beginning of August 2014. Reddick had a boatload of tourists out for a whale-watching and iceberg-spotting excursion, and there was a humpback whale in the area.

A CBC crew was filming on a Department of Fisheries and Oceans boat in the area at the same time, and recorded video of Reddick's vessel near the whale.

That video is key evidence in the trial, and was played again in court Friday.

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The Crown has called eyewitnesses who were on the DFO boat at the time. A manager with the department testified Friday afternoon, regarding the Fisheries Act.

With more witnesses and more details to go over, both the Crown and defence agreed to more time in October.

In court Friday, Judge Jacqueline Brazil said it had to wrap up then.

"When these trials stop and start it makes my job harder," she said, because of having to go back over evidence.

The defence lawyer responded, "It makes our job harder too."

The trial for the company, Iceberg Quest Ocean Tours, is scheduled for the fall.