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Poaching abalone in South Africa (5:30)


Listen February 22, 2008 permalink

Abalone is considered a seafood delicacy and an aphrodisiac in Asia. It's found in South African waters. The demand for the small sea snail is so great, that South Africa's abalone is threatened. Now poachers and criminal drug gangs are going after the snail. Rhoda Metcalfe reports from Cape Town, South Africa.


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