{"id":1018991,"date":"2021-11-16T09:43:48","date_gmt":"2021-11-16T14:43:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1018991"},"modified":"2021-11-16T09:43:58","modified_gmt":"2021-11-16T14:43:58","slug":"china-seizes-live-australian-rock-lobsters-after-declaring-security-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/china-seizes-live-australian-rock-lobsters-after-declaring-security-threat\/","title":{"rendered":"China Seizes Live Australian Rock Lobsters After Declaring &#039;Security Threat&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fchina-seizes-live-australian-rock-lobsters-after-declaring-security-threat%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1018991&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">Communist China has delivered on its warning against imported Australian rock lobsters after declaring the tasty&nbsp;marine crustaceans a \u201cnational security threat.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hong Kong customs officers grabbed nearly 900 kilograms of the sought after marine delicacy on a speedboat on Monday night, desperate to stop any furtive imports that go against Beijing\u2019s orders.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>AFP <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/news\/900-kg-of-live-lobsters-seized-in-hong-kong\/\">reports<\/a>&nbsp;around&nbsp;890 kilograms of live lobsters and another 930 kilograms of sea cucumbers were found on a twin-engined launch trying to leave harbour on the south of Hong Kong Island under cover of darkness.<\/p>\n<p>According to Lui Siu-fai, a divisional commander with the city\u2019s customs department, crack Chinese anti-lobster patrols were responsible for the seizure.&nbsp; The origins of the haul are still under investigation, he told a press briefing on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18767874\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"36\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1236597258.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-18767874\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1236597258-1024x681-1.jpg\" alt width=\"990\" height=\"658\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Boxes of lobsters seized by Hong Kong customs are displayed during a press conference in Hong Kong on November 16, 2021, as authorities stepped up a crackdown on rampant smuggling of Australian rock lobsters into mainland China. (PETER PARKS\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The city\u2019s customs chief last month dubbed smuggled Australian lobsters \u201ca national security threat\u201d vowing to crack down on the trade, as Breitbart News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2021\/10\/21\/crustacean-crackdown-australian-rock-lobsters-declared-a-national-security-threat-in-china\/\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Lobster has long been regarded as a treat in China and Australia has been a favored source of the delicacy for decades.<\/p>\n<p>That all changed when Beijing&nbsp;restricted imports as relations between the countries plunged after&nbsp;the government turned on Australia because it dared to publicly state the coronavirus was first spread in Wuhan wet markets.<\/p>\n<p>Canberra also took on the World Health Organization (W.H.O.) for its stumbling response in the early days of the global pandemic.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"7.4218009478673\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Australia confronted the World Health Organization over claims it supports so-called wet markets reopening in the Chinese city of Wuhan. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/KH1KxRXxvv\">https:\/\/t.co\/KH1KxRXxvv<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartNews\/status\/1250267073512534022?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 15, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Since Beijing\u2019s unofficial ban took effect in October last year, exports of Australian lobsters to Hong Kong have soared \u2014 from a total monthly value of U.S.$426,000 to a peak of more than U.S.$19 million in June this year, data from Australia\u2019s Fisheries Research and Development Corporation showed.<\/p>\n<p>AFP reports from July to September, Hong Kong and mainland authorities seized 5,300 kilograms of smuggled Australian lobsters, worth around US$540,000, arresting 13 people.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, 228 tonnes of smuggled Australian lobsters with an estimated market value of US$23.1 million were seized from raids of several importers in Hong Kong, and seven men were arrested.<\/p>\n<h5><em><span>Follow Simon Kent on Twitter:<\/span> <a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SunSimonKent\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @SunSimonKent<\/a> <span>or e-mail to: skent@breitbart.com<\/span><br \/><\/em><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Communist China has delivered on its warning against imported Australian rock lobsters after declaring the tasty\u00a0marine crustaceans a \u201cnational security threat.\u201d Hong Kong customs officers grabbed nearly 900 kilograms of &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":82,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1018991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/82"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1018991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018991\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1018991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1018991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1018991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}