Hoorah!!  This time the good guys won.  :-))
 
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> From: G Thomas Watters <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: [CONCH-L] mussel bust
> Date: Saturday, July 25, 1998 10:09 AM
>
> The following is lifted from another listserver, but should be of
interest
> to Conch-L. I am pleased to say I had a small part in this. When the
> poachers are caught in Ohio, I am the one they call at 2 AM to go ID the
> specimens.
>
> Article reads:
>
> Business Wire
> 24-JUL-98
>
> MEMPHIS, Tenn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 24, 1998-- One Million For Mussels
>
> Veronica F. Coleman, United States Attorney for the Western District of
> Tennessee; H. Dale Hall, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Acting Regional
> Director; and Gary Meyers, Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency Executive
> Director, announced today that the Camden, Tennessee-based,
Japanese-owned
> Tennessee Shell Company pled guilty to a felony in U.S. District Court in
> Jackson, Tennessee, and will pay $1 million in restitution for purchasing
> thousands of pounds of illegally taken freshwater mussels from rivers in
> Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky and West Virginia.
>