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BYCATCH: A protest leader asked why fishers could not wait for fish to grow up before catching them as she held up two juvenile fish from a pile of bycatchBy Chung Li-hua and Jason Pan / Staff reporters ....
Ownership of Formosan rock macaques is to be banned from next month, with owners required to forfeit or register such pets by March, the Council of Agriculture said yesterday. The macaque would be added to a list of animals prohibited from ownership, importation or exportation, effective on Sept. 1 at the earliest, the council said. Those who legitimately obtained such animals prior to the rules going into effect would be allowed to microchip and register them with their local agriculture department before March next year, or face a fine of NT$50,000 to NT$250,000 and confiscation of the animal, Department of Animal Industry ....
By Kayleigh Madjar / Staff writer, with CNAOwnership of Formosan rock macaques is to be banned from next month, with owners required to forfeit or register such pets by March, the Council of Agriculture said yesterday. ....
Conservationists on Wednesday urged the Penghu County Government to ban the capture of Hemicentrotus pulcherrimus sea urchins. The Maritime Citizen Foundation and the Environment and Animal Society of Taiwan said that their volunteer divers only found two specimens near Jianshan (尖山) when they surveyed the waters near the archipelago. The groups estimated that the number of sea urchins living in the area has fallen from 200 million about 50 years ago to about 50,000 today. Even though whole sea urchins have largely disappeared from local markets, some fishers might catch them illegally, they said. The county government’s conservation efforts are understaffed ....