Sushi chef, restaurant charged with serving endang
Sushi chef, restaurant charged with serving endangered whale
Sushi chef, restaurant charged with serving endangered whale
(Reuters) - A California sushi chef and the restaurant fragrancein which he worked have been charged with illegally serving meat from an endangered Sei whale,中小企业国际市场开拓资金, the Justice Department said on Thursday.
Kiyoshiro Yamamoto#x, 45, and the parent company of the popular restaurant The Hump in Santa Monica were charged late on Wednesday with violating the Marine Mammal Protection Act which makes it illegal to sell any kind of whale meat.
The case stemmed from informants who ordered whale meat at the restaurant in October 2009 and evolved into a sting operation by U.S. wildlife and customs officials who observed whale meat being served at the restaurant last week.
"Someone should not be able to walk into a restaurant fragranceand order a plate of an endangered species," U.S. Attorney Andre Birotte Jr. said in a statement.
According to an affidavit filed with the criminal complaint, two confidential informants last week ordered whale meat during a sting operation while wildlife and customs officers sat at the sushi bar observing.
The sushi chef went to a car in the parking lot and brought a package of meat back into the restaurant where he opened it at the sushi bar and sliced the meat to serve, according to the document.
After initially ignoring questions from a customer#x at the sushi bar about the meat, "a customer to the right of the (official) then asked the sushi chef about the meat product, and fragrancethe sushi chef quietly said that it was 'whale,'" the affidavit said.
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