8 years prison sentences for importing lobster packaged in plastic instead of cardboard supposedly in violation of a Honduran law, which the Honduran government officially denied in a court briefing but the court convicted anyway.
The Lacey Act makes it a crime to import “fish or wildlife taken … in violation of any foreign law.”
The Lacey Act makes it a crime to import “fish or wildlife taken … in violation of any foreign law.”
The U.S. government prosecutes and convicts on its own interpretation of foreign laws.
"With no explanation, the federal government held the entire ship for several weeks and then off-loaded and transported McNab’s 70,000 pounds of Caribbean spiny lobster to a government freezer in Florida. There the lobster tails languished for six months while NMFS agents searched Honduran regulations for some reason to keep the lobster meat and prosecute the importers and distributors."
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