Source: Zhejiang Voice
Recently, a man in Qingjiang Town, Yueqing City, Wenzhou was detained by the Yueqing police for bringing the national second-level key protected animal " horseshoe crab " (pronunciation: hòu) to the dining table.
"Police Officer, I saw someone holding an animal suspected of horseshoe crab on the road. Come and take a look." At noon on April 19, the Qingjiang Police Station of Yueqing Municipal Public Security Bureau received a call from the public. Policeman Cai Jiyu found through surveillance investigation that a man in white walked into a shop with a dark brown marine life .
The police found the shop owner and asked, sure enough, at noon, a friend had brought a horseshoe crab to his shop and wanted to borrow his big pot to cook. "At first, I didn't know that it was a protected animal. Later, I took a photo and posted it on WeChat Moments. Someone left me a message saying that this thing was not eaten." The owner of the shop explained, but it was too late, and the horseshoe crab had been cooked and was taken home by a friend.
Through investigation, the police found the person involved, Wang. Wang confessed that he just wanted to "try out" with his friends. On that day, he happened to have a dinner with a group of friends, and he and Jin were responsible for purchasing. When they were buying vegetables in the vegetable market, they saw someone selling horseshoe crabs. They thought they had eaten it when they were young, but now they have not seen horseshoe crabshoe crabs for many years. Wang bought one and came back to try it out for everyone. Unexpectedly, it happened.
After identification, the horseshoe crab purchased by Wang was Chinese horseshoe crab , also known as horseshoe crab , and is a national second-level key protected animal. It is a very ancient creature. It lived on the earth in the Ordovician period more than 400 million years ago. The horseshoe horseskin still maintain its ancient form, so it is known as the "living fossil". In the past, in Zhejiang, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi and other places, some people made Chinese horseshoe crabs into delicious food. Now, if you eat again, you will be in jail. After
, the police seized Wu, the owner of the vegetable market, who has been engaged in fishmonger business for many years. He knew that horseshoe crabs were protected animals in the state, but he sold them with a lucky mentality.
At present, Wang, Jin and Wu were criminally detained by Yueqing police in accordance with the law for suspected endangering precious and brinking wild animals, and the case is still under further handling.
Police remind
According to the "Amendment to the Criminal Law of the People's Republic of China (Eleventh)"
Illegal hunting, killing precious and endangered wild animals
and illegal acquisition, transportation and sale of
precious, endangered wild animals
rare, endangered wild animals
rare, endangered wild animals products
will constitute the crime of endangering precious and endangered wild animals
0 is a criminal act explicitly prohibited by my country's criminal law
00 Anyone who ignores national laws and tests the law with his own eyes
Public security organs will crack down on it severely and will never be rude
