20/11/2024
Part 3 of our eel mafia series: How Europol is fighting the illegal glass eel trade.
Up to 350 million glass eels are illegally smuggled from the EU to Asia every year. The criminals disguise the animals as other fish products or hide them in suitcases.
What is the EU doing about it? Operation LAKE has been bringing together customs and police authorities from 32 countries since 2015. The successes:
• Over 750 arrests
• 26 tonnes of glass eels saved
• 50% less illegal trade since 2016
But the problem remains: as long as there is legal fishing in the EU, it is difficult for the authorities to identify illegal eels.
👉 Our demand: a complete ban on eel fishing in the EU. A species threatened with extinction must not be fished, traded and consumed!
🐟 Help us, sign the petition:
https://weact.campact.de/petitions/schluss-mit-der-jagd-auf-aal
This was our last part in the Eel Mafia series. You missed parts 1 and 2? Have a look at the posts of the last two weeks again.