British eel trader says move will destroy traditional elvering but campaigners welcome decision
Endangered eels caught in British estuaries will no longer be exported to Russia after the government banned the trade.
In a decision that Britain’s last remaining eel trader said would end centuries of traditional elvering, a request to dispatch millions of glass eels – young eels that develop into elvers – to a restocking project in Kaliningrad was refused by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra).
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