A campaign to save the eel, the continent’s most threatened common freshwater fish, may be breaking down because French fishermen are exporting too many baby eels to China, British conservationists fear. France holds up to 90 per cent of Europe’s eels, and French supplies are crucial for restocking rivers and lakes in other countries from which they are rapidly disappearing.
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about 16 years ago
Europe’s eel stocks ‘under threat’ from export fishing
A campaign to save the eel, the continent’s most threatened common freshwater fish, may be breaking down because French fishermen are exporting too many baby eels to China, British conservationists fear. France holds up to 90 per cent of Europe’s eels, and French supplies are crucial for restocking
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