Export of endangered eels to Russia ends after UK government ban

Endangered eels caught in British estuaries will no longer be exported to Russia this year after the government banned the trade. In a move that Britain’s last remaining eel trader said would end centuries of traditional elvering, a request to dispatch millions of glass eels – young eels that develop into elvers – to a restocking project in Kaliningrad was refused by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra). Last year, the authorities allowed Peter Wood of UK Glass Eels, who has been exporting glass eels for more than 50 years, to dispatch one tonne of glass eels

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