Police swoop on eel traffickers
The Sustainable Eel Group has welcomed the outcome of a coordinated enforcement action which targeted a criminal network involved in the illegal trade of glass eels across southwestern France and…
Major blow to billion-euro glass eel trafficking networks
Authorities from 21 countries across Europe and beyond have co-ordinated with Europol to target organised crime groups behind the illegal trade in endangered glass eels. DNA testing in the US…
Eel smuggler convicted
The driver of a truck coming through Holyhead has been sentenced by a court in North Wales. Kevin Forbes was found to have 37 boxes of eels concealed in a…
