NANFA-- Re: shipping newts

EdwardK674_at_aol.com
Sun, 4 Jun 2000 17:17:11 EDT

In a message dated 6/4/00 5:07:04 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
owner-nanfa-digest_at_aquaria.net writes:

<< If they were a common species - shipping via priority mail is legal -
amphibians,
lizards , and fish are ok. Turtles and snakes have to go air cargo for pick
up by
the recipient at the terminal. >>

Triterus cristatus. The issue was that the newts were not declared on the
packaging or listed as live animals. This is how they prosecuted him under
the Lacy Act for not declaring that the package the contained newts.
Ed

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