Video: Customs nab live lobsters

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Customs officers of the Bio Diversity unit at the Bandaranaike International Airport nabbed eight boxes containing 669 live lobsters that were to be exported to Vietnam by a businessman breaching the Aquatic Resources Act.

The suspect is an owner of a lobster exporting company in Negombo.

It is strictly prohibited to export lobsters of less than six centimeters though big lobsters could be exported under a permit but this company did not have a permit to export lobsters.(Deepa Adikari)

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