Two Men Caught Trafficking Juvenile Eels From Puerto Rico to Asia, Both Now in Jail For 2 Yrs.
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In an ambitious plan that didn’t get very far, two men from the Dominican Republic spent months last year harvesting juvenile American eels (Anguilla rostrata), also known as glass eels, in the rivers around Levittown, Puerto Rico on the island’s north coast.
According to court documents, “Once they caught the eels, the defendants kept them alive with an oxygenation system while a boat was built to travel back to the Dominican Republic.
“On Feb. 21, both defendants left Puerto Rico bound for ...
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