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At dusk, a man pulled a jam-packed net from the Ionian Sea into a speed boat headed for Taranto, a city in Puglia, Italy.
He would make a few hundred euros off the catch if he could get it into the right hands without being spotted. His cargo was about 50kg of wiggly, slimy sea cucumbers, or as they are called in Italy, “poop of the sea.”
Arturo Casale, 65, got word of the man’s fishing expedition later that day in the form of a photograph. It was too late to catch the thief. As the founder of an environmental non-profit called