THE Consumers Association of Penang (CAP) believes that rampant smuggling of cockle spats into a neighbouring country is dwindling the population of the mollusc in the country.
Its president S.M. Mohamed Idris claimed that cockle farmers were selling the spats to Thailand as there is a good market for it there.
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