A Porirua man has been sentenced to six months home detention for grossly exceeding paua limits last October.
Valilio Lio, 26, is one of three men found with 867 paua in Titahi Bay, 275 of which were undersized.
The legal limit is 10 per diver per day.
Lio has been sentenced in the Porirua District Court, where he has also been ordered to carry out 150 hours of community work.
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