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BERLIN (Reuters) - German customs officials in the port of
Hamburg confiscated 26,000 live fish hidden in the back of a
truck in sealed glass vases without food or fresh oxygen, a
customs spokesman said on Wednesday.
The cargo of White Cloud Mountain Minnow fish, native to
South-East Asia, traveled for around four weeks imprisoned in
thousands of water-filled vases that each contained a plastic
flower and two fish.
"I have never seen such a case like this before," said
Hartmut Stienen, spokesman for the Authority for Science and
Health in Hamburg in northern Germany.
"I don't know why someone would transport so many fish in
such terrible conditions that flout every animal welfare
regulation," he said.
Stienen said the customs authority suspected the lorry,
under the guise of a consolidated cargo of artificial glass,
was transporting the fish to Hungary for a Chinese firm.
The Hamburg Zoological Institute has assumed responsibility
for caring for the 26,000 surviving fish, providing them with
food and clean water.
Hamburg confiscated 26,000 live fish hidden in the back of a
truck in sealed glass vases without food or fresh oxygen, a
customs spokesman said on Wednesday.
The cargo of White Cloud Mountain Minnow fish, native to
South-East Asia, traveled for around four weeks imprisoned in
thousands of water-filled vases that each contained a plastic
flower and two fish.
"I have never seen such a case like this before," said
Hartmut Stienen, spokesman for the Authority for Science and
Health in Hamburg in northern Germany.
"I don't know why someone would transport so many fish in
such terrible conditions that flout every animal welfare
regulation," he said.
Stienen said the customs authority suspected the lorry,
under the guise of a consolidated cargo of artificial glass,
was transporting the fish to Hungary for a Chinese firm.
The Hamburg Zoological Institute has assumed responsibility
for caring for the 26,000 surviving fish, providing them with
food and clean water.
