Man Fined for Selling Fresh Fish

新鲜有罪

A fishmonger was fined almost $200 by a court in Helsinki for allowing his fish to suffer while on sale at a local market, a Finnish newspaper is reporting. A 27-year-old veterinarian took fisherman Magnus Ekstrom to court, complaining that his burbots at the Helsinki market hall were still moving their gills and wiggling around on the shop counter, suffering from unnecessary pain. Ekstrom whacked his fish to prove they were dead, but when the fish continued to flop around the dissatisfied vet called in the police who arrived on the scene with wailing sirens, the newspaper said. “I think I am the only fisherman in Europe...no, in the entire world, that has been convicted with a thing like this. Usually people want fish to be as fresh as possible when it's sold,” Ekstrom was quoted as saying. The fisherman was fined $41 by a criminal court and forced to pay some $152 in legal fees.

　　据芬兰报纸报道，一名鱼贩被赫尔辛基一家法院罚款将近200美元，罪名是他在当地市场上卖鱼的时候听任鱼儿遭受折磨。一个27岁的兽医把渔民马格努斯·埃克斯特罗姆告上法庭，指控他在赫尔辛基集市大厅里出售的鳕鱼的鳃还在动，还在店铺柜台上扑腾，遭受了“不必要的”痛苦。报纸说，埃克斯特罗姆使劲拍打鱼想证明它们是死的，可是鱼还在不停地跳，对此甚为不满的兽医于是报警，而警察就拉着警笛来到了现场。报纸援引埃克斯特罗姆的话说：“我想我是欧洲惟一的……不，是全世界惟一因为这种事被定罪的渔夫。通常人们买鱼都希望鱼越新鲜越好。”他被一个刑事法庭罚款41美元，法庭还勒令他支付大约152美元的诉讼费。