mr86mister
Saltaholic
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/84080-shipment-of-beautiful-coral-seized
Sad to see these things are still happening. Just glad they caught him.
Sad to see these things are still happening. Just glad they caught him.
Wow, happy they caught this guy!
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GMaquarium
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It most likely is not at all what it seems. This happens often and in our country too. Yes a bad coral smuggler is a good tabloid, it gets people's attention and makes it seems like they are really doing their jobs. However often times there are shipments being confiscated for mistakes in paperwork, misidentified corals, collection regulations from country of origin and changes in import laws in country of destination. Many times the impoterting company doesn't even know what's in the boxes, pays to have a shipment come in, looses the shipment and is then called a corals smuggler. I have seen the other side of this story and it's not fun. That article gives little useful information.
GMaquarium
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Most useful in the article was the picture. Mostly brain corals, the coral up front is acanthaphyllia. Somewhat new name for the coral. Was renamed from being in scolymia family. Was legal coral when called scolymia, or is mislabeled as cynarina but iligal if acanthaphyllia.
tahiriqbal
Sialkot
We have been discussing this unfortunate incident on our local forum and every single one of our free advertiser (sponsor but don't pay the sponsor's free) been disgusted and in utter dismay. The UK government is very strict on such issues hence causes delays when shipments arrives at our dry ports. On the positive side of news is that corals are donated to the local public aquarium. I hope this person or company gets what it deserves a very large fine which I think is around £2400.00 per coral and seven years imprisonment.
Tahir
Tahir
Thanks for the information Tahir. The article simply states hard coral imoports are banned in the UK. I thought they were allowed as long as proper C.I.T. E.S. ( Convention In the Trade of Endangered Species) permits were processed;same as here. Is that the case?
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