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Millions of Lobster Seedlings Smuggled Abroad

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Sealed pouches containing lobster seedlings are packed in a polystyrene box at the Maritime Affairs and Fishery Ministry’s fish quarantine and fishing quality control agency (BKIPM-KKP) on Wednesday (14/5/2019) in Jambi. The agency is quarantining the larvae, which were confiscated from a boat intended for smuggling abroad, before they are released back into the sea.

Millions of lobster seedlings have been smuggled abroad in the past five years. From 2014 to April 2019, authorities have thwarted attempts to smuggle 7.5 million lobster seedlings worth Rp 1 trillion (US$70.75 million).

SUKABUMI, KOMPAS — Criminals continue to deplete Indonesia of its marine resource wealth. Using a network of lobster catchers and collectors, the seedlings of local lobsters (Panulirus sp.) are smuggled from the archipelago’s water abroad through illegal seaports on Sumatra’s eastern coast.

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