Jan,
 
        Tridacna gigas is on the CIES list and that list is also followed
within the European Union. This means that legal import is not possible by
private individuals. Research institutes may obtain a permit. Taking the
weight into account (it is not a shell to smuggle through customs easy) it
is not easy to plan an illegal import.
 
Regards,
 
Fred Vervaet
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
 
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> Sent:         vrijdag 6 november 1998 22:27
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> Subject:      Tridacna gigas
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> Hello folks,
>
>
> I had to relax from my library-desk for a while, so I took a shell book
> to browse a little...
> Seeing a nice picture of Tridacna gigas, gave birth to a question that
> won't leave me : how on earth can I ever manage to purchase myself an
> adult Tridacna gigas of about 1,5 m and 200 kg, and not paying three
> months salary for it ? And secondly : how can I get a huge shell like
> that over to remote Belgium ?
>
> Any ideas ? Anyone who has a nice specimen of this shell flown over
> directly to his home from the south ? Who knows a good carpenter to make
> me a solid drawer for this... :^))  ?
> Briefly : how is it really done to acquire a shell like that, for people
> living on the upper half of our globe ...?
>
> Thanks in advance for good tips !
>
> Jan Haspeslagh from Belgium
>
 
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