What kind of person arrest someone for throwing back a fish?

NY Times:

Justices Overturn a Fisherman’s Conviction for Tossing Undersize Catch

The Supreme Court decided that grouper thrown back into the Gulf of Mexico did not meet the definition of a tangible object specified in the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.
It gives you an idea how ridiculous Sarbanes-Oxley can be read by a zealot bureaucrat.  That fisherman is probably luckier than companies caught in the Sarbane-Oxley net.

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