Tas: Pair nabbed with abalone haul

AAP General News (Australia)
12-19-2005
Tas: Pair nabbed with abalone haul

HOBART, Dec 19 AAP - A man and woman are due to face a Tasmanian court later this afternoon
to face a charge of possessing more than 50 times the legal limit of abalone.

Police said the 30-year-old man and a 23-year-old woman were arrested after they were
found with 58kg of frozen abalone meat in their car on the Bass Highway near Launceston
about 0900 (AEDT) today.

A police spokeswoman said more charges were expected to be laid and added fisheries
officers alleged the haul equalled about 500 abalone.

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KEYWORD: ABALONE

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