When Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries agents bust you with 496 fish over your daily limit, you can bet the penalty is going to be severe.
It was for two men caught in April 2012 with 11 whole sharks and 2,073 shark fins, taken from another 518 fish.
Rick Nguyen, 37, of Buras, and Hung Anh Tiet, 29, of Dallas, Texas, pled guilty last week to shark finning and harvesting more than their limit of sharks.
Shark finning is an illegal practice of removing the fins, the most profitable part of the shark, and discarding the rest of the body overboard.
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