Matsu lobster smugglers face NT$98 million fines

Taiwan Customs has decided to levy more than NT$98 million (US$3.2 million) in fines on ship owners and crew found smuggling nearly 60,000 kilograms of live lobsters from Australia to China via Taiwan's outlying Matsu Islands between September and November last year, the Customs Administration said in a statement issued Thursday.

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