两家水上公司本周对联邦刑事指控表示认罪，因为他们从越南非法进口了受保护的活珊瑚，隐瞒了他们的非法活动，并向美国鱼类和野生动物服务局提交了虚假记录。美国检察官办公室已发布有关此案的以下信息：
文艺复兴时期水上公司。and Lim Aqua-Nautic Specialist Inc. from Inglewood California each pleaded guilty to two felony counts of unlawfully importinglive coral。根据他们的请求reements, from 2007 until March 2013, Renaissance Aquatics operated as a retailer of live marine specimens and acted as an agent for Lim Aqua-Nautic Specialist, a marine livestock wholesaler. The companies imported marine life from foreign suppliers, then sold and shipped marine life within and outside the United States. Both companies were located within the same commercial building in Inglewood.
文艺复兴时期的员工向外国供应商下达订单，以购买包括活珊瑚在内的各种盐水物种。Aqua-nautic提供了文艺复兴时期的资金，以支付订单，为卡车和司机提供订单，以便在抵达洛杉矶国际机场时接收订单，并为仓库空间和员工提供了货运，条件并在其交货时储存海洋生物从机场。Aqua-nautic从随后的野生动植物销售到文艺复兴时期的客户那里获得了大部分收益。
从越南供应商进口的文艺复兴时期的订单活石珊瑚, that the defendants knew were protected under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES). To lawfully import the corals, Renaissance was required to identify the corals on United States Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) Declaration for Importation or Exportation of Fish or Wildlife and to have the required CITES documentation.
Not declared, misleading paperwork and concealed corals
Renaissance neither declared the live stony corals in the shipments from Vietnam nor provided the required CITES documentation for them. Renaissance caused its customs broker to submit to the USFWS a misleading “Invoice & Packing List” that intentionally omitted the live stony corals and listed inaccurate prices. The shipments from Vietnam were also packed in a manner to conceal the live stony corals beneath other properly declared species.
From May 2012 to March 2013, Renaissance, acting as Aqua-Nautic’s agent, imported at least eight shipments from Vietnam containing stony corals that were not declared to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and were not accompanied by the required CITES documentation.
美国地方法院法官迈克尔·W·菲茨杰拉德（Michael W.法定最高刑期为五年缓刑和100万美元的罚款。
美国鱼类和野生动物服务局调查了此案。环境和社区安全犯罪部门的助理美国律师Heather C. Gorman和Dennis Mitchell正在起诉此案。上述案件的信息由司法部发布,美国检察官办公室，加利福尼亚中部地区22-156。
越南非硬珊瑚的进口和出口，例如海葵，蘑菇，Zoanthids(Anthozoans,) and Soft corals, (Alcyonacea,) is legal in the US, EU, and the UK, and the country remains a popular saltwater aquarium source.
