DOFW Chief Kammen Chin said his personnel found the Kemedukls with only pins and skins left at the NECO Marine dock and were all in a decomposing state.
Chin said the Kemedukls were left last week andwas discovered on Tuesday by some residents of the area.
The DOFW is conducting an investigation to determine and to identify the poachers.
The kemedukls are protected and considered as endangered species.
The weight of one humphead parrotfish is 46 kilograms and its size is 130 cm.
The humphead parrotfish is an olive or blue-green to slate-grey fish, with a yellowish to pink head. Its most distinctive feature, and the reason for its common name, is the prominent bulbous forehead which develops in adults. Juvenile humphead parrotfish do not have this bulging head and also differ slightly in colour, being green or brown with five vertical rows of small, whitish spots.
The habit of feeding, resting and spawning in groups makes the humphead parrotfish highly vulnerable to fishing, particularly by spear-fishing during the night. This has resulted in a decline in numbers of the humphead parrotfish in some areas, and this once abundant fish is now virtually extinct in Guam, the Marshall Islands, parts of Fiji and East Africa.
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