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Well known fish collector serves prison time

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    Default Well known fish collector serves prison time

    Man gets prison for smuggling rare reef fish

    Steve Robinson was one of the pioneers in the Philippines promoting net caught collection. He is also known for collecting the Clarion angel as well as NOW the Clipperton angel.
    I dont know anymore of the story but boundaries are boundaries.....
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    The fish in question were seized by USFW, somebody lost a lot of money on this deal.....
    This fish is only known to habitat on this one small atoll, unfortunately this situation does not reflect well on the aquarium trade.
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    wow ... this is way out of the range of ignorance... this is vicious and deliberate.


    somehow i doubt 20k is worth prison time
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    Was more than 20k I believe, the article says he caught 52. That would be well over 200k at just half the estimated value. 45 day sentence seems kind of light, must have some big fines as well.

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    taking it in the rear porthole is not worth any sum of money

    (and i meant 200k ... bad typing)
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