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Three men in Tonga have been fined $7300 each after poaching nearly 30,000 sea cucumbers for commercial purposes during a fishing ban on the invertebrates.
Justice Petunia Tupou of the Supreme Court in Vava'u has given a Tongan man and two Chinese nationals six months to pay up or face six months in jail.
During sentencing on 21 November, Justice Tupou said parliament considered this type of offending extremely serious.
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