Arrest for illegal sales of paddlefish caviar

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Paddlefish: polygon spatula. From Goode 1884 The Fisheries and Fishery Industries of the United States

Just last month — November 2018 — a man from English, Indiana, was sentenced in Federal district court in Indianapolis to two years in prison for wildlife trafficking. His offense is illegal commercial fishing of paddlefish, which are desirable American substitutes for European caviar.

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