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(Source: Sustainable Eel Group) “The efforts of the European Commission and Member States, as a result of the 2016 Action Plan to tackle wildlife crime, has had a positive impact on reducing the…

(Source: Sustainable Eel Group/The Guardian) For many years, the top-rated attraction in the Tasman district of New Zealand was a cafe famed for its rural setting, seafood chowder – and tame eels.For a few…

(Source: Parks Canada History) Legend says that on moonless nights in the spring, elvers – juvenile American Eels – migrate upstream. So, in the hours of darkness before high tide, Parks Canada…

(Source: Sustainable Eel Group) Demonstrating the impacts of the Sustainable Eel Group through a decade of eel protection, accelerating the eel recovery and refining the SEG Standard for sustainable eel. Read More 

(Source: Sustainable Eel Group) This Razor production investigates the challenges of bringing about eel recovery. Viewers are taken through some of the complex issues and make a compelling case for sustainability and indirectly the Eel Regulation……

(Source: Sustainable Eel Group) These illegal transports and exports of 46 tonnes of glass eels in total represent a very lucrative traffic amounting to 18.5 million euros to date. At the origin of this dismantling, a…

(Source: Sustainable Eel Group) The Government of Canada is committed to protecting Canadian and foreign species of wild animals and plants that may be at risk of over-exploitation due to unsustainable or illegal trade……

(Source: Sustainable Eel Group) CITES and the sea: Trade in commercially exploited CITES-listed marine species. For the chapter on European eel, Florian Stein, SEG’s Director of Scientific Operations was asked to contribute…

(Source: Science Daily/Uppsala University) European eels spawn in the subtropical Sargasso Sea but spend most of their adult life in a range of fresh- and brackish waters, across Europe and Northern Africa……

(Source: Sustainable Eel Group) The eel is nearly extinct – this is often claimed – necessitating a call for a total emergency, with all measures to protect and recover the stock.  But is…