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Islands in focus: Seized baby lobsters set to return to wildlife
The local authorities in Yogyakarta said on Wednesday they would release hundreds of thousands of baby lobsters recently confiscated from two alleged smugglers into waters off the provinceâs Gunungkidul regency to help restore the areaâs lobster population
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he local authorities in Yogyakarta said on Wednesday they would release hundreds of thousands of baby lobsters recently confiscated from two alleged smugglers into waters off the province's Gunungkidul regency to help restore the area's lobster population.
'We will temporarily keep the baby lobsters at a local farm. When they are healthy and ready, we will release them into the wild,' Yogyakarta Fishing Quarantine Station head Suprayogi said on Wednesday.
On Tuesday morning, local authorities arrested two people for attempting to smuggle 320,000 baby lobsters worth around Rp 6 billion (US$435,730) from West Nusa Tenggara to Singapore via Yogyakarta's Adisucipto International Airport on an AirAsia flight.
The suspects, according to Suprayogi, could be charged under Law No. 31/2004 on fishing, which carries a maximum punishment of six years' imprisonment and a fine of Rp 1.2 billion.
