Seafood Wholesalers Plead Guilty to Lacey Act Violations
The Justice Department has announced that Karen Blyth and David Phelps, co-owners of Consolidated Seafood Enterprises Inc. of Arizona and Reel Fish and Seafood Inc. of Florida, pleaded guilty on January 24, 2011 to violating the Lacey Act by purchasing…
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and selling certain falsely labeled catfish and perch in order to avoid certain anti-dumping duties; selling farm-raised shrimp falsely labeled as wild caught; buying fish they knew had been illegally imported into the U.S. etc. Their sentencing is set for May 4, 2011.