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Subject:
95 Chinese poachers arrested at Tubbataha Reef
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Robert Delfs <[log in to unmask]>
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SouthEast US Scuba Diving Travel list <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Thu, 7 Feb 2002 17:56:34 -0500
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Attached below is a WWF press release and two articles from the
Philippine Inquirer regarding the arrest of 95 Chinese nationals from
Hainan on four vessels near Tubbataha Reef on 1 February.

In addition to 4 vessels and 25 dinghies, authorities seized 50 sea
turtles, shark meat, 10 fan corals, 10 sacks of dried sea cucumber, 400
kg of dried clam meat (Tridacna gigas), 13 live mameng (?), a rare fish
species, fuse for explosives, blasting caps and chemicals.

Frogfish (Robert Delfs)


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