American Eel Depot and Seven Others Charged With Illegal Trafficking of Baby Eels
The United States' largest importer and wholesale distributor of eel meat and four individuals in New York, three in China, and one in Hong Kong are under a federal indictment of smuggling, Lacey Act violations and conspiracy to violate the Endangered Species Act.
The felony charges stem from evidence that the eight defendants illegally caught and smuggled “live baby European eels out of Europe, to their eel-rearing factory in China. After rearing the baby eels to maturity, defendants’ Chinese facility would then slaughter...
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