TAS: The criminal lure of abalone

From: AAP General News (Australia) | Date: April 12, 2002 | Copyright information


AAP General News (Australia)

04-12-2002

TAS: The criminal lure of abalone

By Don Woolford

HOBART, AAP - It's really just an underwater snail, but abalone commands such high
prices in Asia that thieves risk their lives for it, perhaps even murder for it.

Such is the lure of the abalone that authorities are constantly modernising their methods
to protect one of Australia's most important ocean products from organised and cashed-...

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