Criminals earn billions from the illegal smuggling of European glass eels to Asia, where demand for this endangered species is exploding. While law enforcement agencies play a cat-and-mouse game with the smugglers, this company in Volendam is seeking the complex solution: the artificial breeding of the eel.
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Criminals earn billions from the illegal smuggling of European glass eels to Asia, where demand for this endangered species is exploding. While law enforcement agencies play a cat-and-mouse game with the smugglers, this company in Volendam is seeking the complex solution: the artificial breeding of the eel.