This season, 11.5 tons of glass eel have flowed in from overseas, accounting for 75 percent of the glass eel used for farming.

Glass eel fishing constitutes today its most lucrative activity.

European glass eel, provided that an approved eel management plan is in place for the location and artificial reproduction of eel remains unsolved.

The market price of glass eel has also soared, being traded at around ¥2.19 million per kilogram.

The glass eel is banned for export without a CITES permit, issued by the High Commission, but very coveted by Asian consumers.

European eels are fished at every stage of their development, from the elver to the adult eel.

(b) a coastal commercial fishing licence, other than a commercial fishing licence to fish for elver;

I would advise that these eels, including their elver stage, are a valuable regulated fishery in the Maritime provinces, providing jobs and enhancing our economies.

French customs and the French Central Office against Environmental and Public Health Crime arrested ten people involved in the smuggling of this species and seized 716 kg of glass eels.

A judge said to the men, who included a company executive from Aichi Prefecture, “[The poaching of glass eel] may seriously affect the protection of fishery resources and impair the maintenance of fishery order.