Seattle Sea Cucumber Poachers Reeled in $1.5m
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [The Guardian] BY Levi Pulkkinen - September 27, 2018
Washington man faces prison for role in years-long operation to poach and sell 250,000lb of poorly understood creature
A Seattle-area fish processor who hoped to cash in on China’s appetite for sea cucumber faces years in prison for his role in a $1.5m poaching scheme that rocked an already unstable fishery.
Federal prosecutors claim Hoon Namkoong led a years-long operation to poach and sell sea cucumbers as regulators were cutting the struggling Washington state fishery ...
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