Harry Morse, a spokesman for Fish and Game, said the poachers were only going after large abalone, which can fetch between $80 to $100 each on the black market.

Illegal abalone ring busted A SYNDICATE believed responsible for trafficking illegal abalone worth millions of dollars has been smashed. 2 min read February 23, 2011 - 10:54AM DailyTelegraph ...

Abalone, sturgeon poaching rings bustedBao Zhang had little idea Wednesday night as he closed his San Francisco restaurant and headed home that Thursday would dawn in the most unpleasant of ways ...

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The court heard Carpmael and 42-year-old Simon Hillman, who works at Rye's Peninsula Hot Springs, repeatedly harvested large amounts of abalone from East Gippsland and sold them to a man in Sunshine.

A MORNINGTON bed and breakfast owner has been jailed for 18 months for illegally poaching abalone. County Court Judge Mark Dean told Andrew Carpmael, 49, trafficking the edible sea creatures was a ...