Hundreds of millions of young eels carried over 3,500 miles every year on Atlantic currents to Europe then flown 5,400 miles further on to China, are at the heart of an illegal French export trade, an eminent British eel expert has said. Andrew Kerr, chairman of European Sustainable Eel Group, said trawlers are waiting to scoop up the three-inch-long elvers, as they seek to swim into the Adour, Gironde, Loire and other rivers to spend the next 10 years growing into adult eels…
Irish Times, 04/01/16. Read the full article ‘Endangered eels nearer extinction than tigers or pandas‘.