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Monday, October 01, 2018
Man Gets 2 Years in Prison for Overharvesting Sea Cucumbers
A judge sentenced the owner of a seafood company in Washington state to two years behind bars Friday for overharvesting $1.5 million of sea cucumbers.
The judge also ordered Hoon Namkoong, 62, to pay the government a $1.5 million fine and serve three years of supervised release for the illegal harvest.
Namkoong pleaded guilty before U.S. District Court in Seattle to underreporting 250,000 pounds of sea cucumbers purchased from various fisheries in the Puget Sound between 2014 and 2016. The long, tube-shaped, bottom-dwelling creatures are part of the sea urchin family and are used in Chinese and southeast Asian cuisine....MORE
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