Man Convicted for Harvesting & Selling Fish to Japan in Violation of Lacey Act
The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Texas has announced that Loren Willis from Florida, has been convicted for his part in a conspiracy to violate the Lacey Act. According to court information, in September 2010, Willis and…
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one of his co-defendants traveled from Florida to Texas to harvest alligator gar for the purpose of selling the fish domestically and in Japan. Willis' co-defendant has pleaded guilty to altering documentation submitted to the Fish and Wildlife Service to reflect that the fish were captive bred (which does not require inspection prior to export) rather than harvested in the wild.