Recently, a video of a Chinese woman picking up jellyfish on the beach in Jesolo, Venice, Italy, has attracted attention.
In the video, the woman placed the jellyfish she picked up on the beach in front of the square and sprinkled the jellyfish with salt, which soon filled several buckets.
The jellyfish data map.
As everyone knows, this may seem like a “delicious gift from nature”, but it may contain extremely high risks – this jellyfish may contain a lot of toxins that are harmful to humans.
Italian experts reminded that the edible processing of jellyfish is not as simple as everyone thinks. It is a very complicated process to clean up its tentacles and toxins in its body, and it must be marinated for at least 4 hours before it can be completely removed. toxin. In view of this, Italian experts remind people not to pick up and eat jellyfish themselves, but to go to the food store to buy those that have been cleaned.
If picking up jellyfish is done by accident, then the following behaviors are more serious.
Oyster data map. Photo by China News Agency reporter Wang Xi
A month ago, the Venice Tax Police received a complaint that some Chinese came to the lagoon in small boats, wearing long fishing boots, pants and gloves, at the bridge. Bag after bag of oysters went back and forth around the column under the arch. The tax police attaches great importance to this phenomenon and immediately went to check. As a result, 8 people were arrested and each faced a fine of up to 6,000 euros.
In many countries, there are strict regulations on aquatic fishing. Fishing, buying, and selling aquatic products without permission or requirements may violate the law, ranging from confiscation of income and fines to imprisonment in severe cases.
In the past two years, several Chinese in Policoro, Matera province, Italy, were fined for catching crabs in the reserve, when they were fishing for crabs without a permit in an artificially constructed saltwater lake. The police imposed a fine for administrative violations, their fishing gear was seized, and the crabs they caught were thrown back into the sea.
In New Zealand, fishing, selling, or buying seafood illegally on the black market can result in hefty fines and years in prison. Among them, those who illegally fish and sell abalone will face up to five years in prison and a fine of not more than 250,000 yuan (New Zealand dollars, the same below).
A Chinese was fined 2,000 yuan for catching 48 abalones. According to the current law in New Zealand, each person can only catch 10 abalones per day, and each abalone must be measured in the water with a measuring tape, which cannot be directly estimated with the naked eye. , and different regions have clear requirements for fishing tools, fishing closure areas and restricted areas.
Auckland, New Zealand also has clear regulations and restrictions on the quantity of fish such as oysters. Locally, the fishing limit is a maximum of 50 cockles and 50 other shellfish per day.
There was once a Chinese woman who was fined 1,500 New Zealand dollars (about 6,918.45 yuan) for catching 1,162 cockles, 960 oysters, and 183 conch shells.
Lobster data map.
In addition to abalone, there are regulations for rock lobster fishing in New Zealand. Recreational lobster fishing is legal, with a limit of 6 per person per day. The size needs to meet certain requirements. Too small cannot be caught. Female lobsters with eggs must be released into the sea, and any fishing cage cannot be placed in the water for more than 24 hours.
Not only animals, but in many countries, plants in some public areas cannot be grown or picked at will.
Recently, a Chinese-American in New York, USA, was fined by the New York City Parks Department for picking wild onions in a Manhattan park.
According to reports, the Chinese was stopped by the New York City Parks Bureau when he was picking wild onions, and issued a fine of 200 yuan for destroying park property; if he does not plead guilty, the maximum You will also be fined 300 yuan.
In fact, in order to prevent pests, the Municipal Park Bureau usually sprays medicines in the park. In addition to paying attention to the legality of the move, it is also necessary to repeatedly filter and wash to avoid poisoning.
Bamboo data map.
And recently, a Chinese couple in British Columbia, Canada was fined $2,000 for spreading bamboo planted in their own backyard to a neighbor’s backyard. Neighbors say the ornamental bamboo has become his annual gardening nightmare. The photos he submitted showed the stems of the plants crawling over a laurel hedge in his yard, and further and further, until he installed a barrier in the summer of 2021, and things got better.
Xiaoqiao reminds that when you are overseas, you must understand the local rules and regulations, and don’t touch the legal red line by chance, because the small loses the big!