Study finds 99% of eel products worldwide come from endangered species

More than 99 percent of eel products sold in 11 countries and regions worldwide come from three species at risk of extinction, a recent joint study by a Japanese and Taiwanese research team showed, underscoring the opaque nature of the global eel trade.Using DNA barcoding, researchers at Chuo University in Tokyo and the National Taiwan University in Taipei found that almost all eels consumed worldwide belonged either to the American eel, Japanese eel or European eel species -- all listed by the International Union for Conservation of Nature as endangered or critically endangered.With the gl…READ FULL ARTICLE