700 kg of Glass Eels Seized at Suvarnabhumi Airport

SUMUT PRAKAN, Dec 21 (TNA) – Customs officials seized 700 kg. of European eels or glass eels, worth more than 40 million baht at Suvarnabhumi Airport. European eels were sent from Romania in two shipments on Dec 19 and 20. They were hidden in consignments, declared as frozen shrimps. Officials presumed that traffickers used Thailand as the transit to transport the endangered species to other countries, where the eels are prized delicacy. The importing country will be questioned to locate the recipients and track the eel traffickers. European eel population in Europe has decreased by 95 per cent in the past 40 years. Netherlands issued the law in 2009 to ban catching the fish for trade from October to November to save them from extinction. (TNA)