Oliver Conway
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Facebook again.
The price, $150 for one kilo.
And a phone call to a man who wants to sell me dead seahorses for use in food or traditional medicine.
How much for a kilo?
There are sellers right here in the UK.
I contact one in the north of England and they're happy to sell me a pack.
I've just picked up my package from a post office box.
It only took two days to get here.
If I look inside, there's three packets full of dead, dried seahorses.
Now, selling them to me like this in the UK, that's against the law.
I'm just going to rip along the top here and see if we can...
I take the packet to Neil Garrick Maidment, who runs the charity The Seahorse Trust.
He identifies several pregnant specimens.
This one packet is probably representing five, six, maybe 700 seahorses that are dead.
I could probably find seahorses in a couple of minutes on Facebook.
It's that easy.
What do you think of that?
Absolutely awful.