Maybe its the economy, maybe it is for the thrill, or maybe it is just damn greed that drives the mussel poachers of Scotland. The scoundrels are driving the native species closer and closer to the edge, killing thousands of mussels for want of a single, small pearl.Scottish freshwater pearls have a long, famous history. They are some of the rarest pearls on the planet and only two jewelers in all of Scotland are even licensed to sell these gems. But that does not stop the Wallace-like plunder of the famous freshwater pearl-mussel beds in the land of scotch and honey.
It is not just the poaching that is threatening the population, pollution and falling wild-salmon stock is also playing a part; polluted water is deadly to the mussels, and the mussel glochidia attach to the gills of salmon like the Chinese FW glochidia attach to the glass carp. But leave it to a couple of greedy assholes to help to play Grim Reaper on the dwindling stock.
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Damn pearl poachers. They are the worst breed.
Not only are they the worst breed, but they themselves should stop breeding. Extinction to Poachers!!! May their sexual appendages and chromosomes malfunction!(an old gypsy curse)
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