After a warehouse in Valencia was discovered to hold stuffed rhinos, polar bears, elephants, and other creatures, police in Spain confiscated one of the greatest hauls of taxidermy animals in Europe as part of an investigation into possible smuggling.
The European country ‘allegedly’ kills the smuggled animals on its borders in several cases. Wildlife smuggling is rampant worldwide, and it is characterized by the unauthorized transfer of an exotic animal from one location to the other, but mostly between two or more countries.
A handful of fishers are experimenting with a technique that originated in Japan years ago. It's a fish-slaughtering procedure that mimics the ike jime process, based on a fundamental scientific principle: the less pain the fish endures, the fresher the flesh remains.