I mentioned a couple of weeks back that an American man had been convicted for selling and exporting crayfish as pets. Another case came to attention recently. An Australian man was convicted and fined AUD$8,550 for catching the world’s largest freshwater invertebrate, Astacopsis gouldii. The crayfish is threatened and protected by law.
I mention this because protecting invertebrates is hard, and law enforcement on this sort of issue is rare. It’s encouraging to see.
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