Int’l Conference Rejects Blanket Restriction on Eel Trade

London, Nov. 27 (Jiji Press)--Signatories to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, also known as the Washington convention, voted at a committee meeting on Thursday to reject a proposal to restrict the trade of all eel species, including the Japanese eel. The proposal was submitted by the European Union, which claimed that eel populations are d...