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SEG Feedback to the EC Consultation on ‘Preventing Illegal Trade in Wildlife

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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,...   Read More

A creature of mystery: New Zealand’s love-hate relationship with eels

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(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,...   Read More

Evaluating the elusive eel

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(Source: Parks Canada History) Legend says that on moonless nights in the spring, elvers – juvenile American Eels – migrate upstream. So, in the...   Read More

Bending the Curve for the European Eel

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(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...   Read More

Eel Rewilding

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(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...   Read More

Trafficking in glass eels: dismantling of international trafficking network by investigators from Bordeaux

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(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...   Read More

Canadian import company fined for illegally importing European eel meat

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(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...   Read More

New FAO report discusses European eel in trade

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(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...   Read More

European eels — one gene pool fits all

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(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-...   Read More

SEG position on the eel stock status, and our ambition for recovery

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(Source: Sustainable Eel Group) The eel is nearly extinct – this is often claimed – necessitating a call for a total emergency, with all measures...   Read More

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