smuggling live fish in japan
the journal of Michael Werneburg
twenty-eight years and a million words
Tokyo, 2010.12.19
The transport companies in Japan won't ship live fish. Or should I say they won't "knowingly" ship live fish....
I won't reveal my sources, but we learned a way to get our aquarium fish sent to their new home in Miyazaki: we told the transport company that it was raw fish for food.
And it worked! The fish are now hanging around in a new aquarium in Kyushu.
To get it done, we got a box with a styrofoam liner and placed the fish in bags individually. I then tossed in a filter, air pump, and heater. Adding a larger bag with the plants, and it was all done except for the lies.