Dutch border police have arrested three Malaysian nationals for They are trying to smuggle hundreds of in thousands of baby On Thursday, authorities said eels are passing through Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport.
the two men A woman has been arrested on Monday after officials became suspicious when they tried to take eight bags through airport security, heading for for Malaysia via Portugal.
Inside the bags were bags with water and baby The Dutch food and commodity watchdog NVWA said.
NVWA inspectors discovered 105 kilograms (231 lb) of Glass snakes. That’s about 300,000 snakes,’ body She said in Declaration.
“The eels will be released back in Dutch waters.”
Over the last Four decades, critically endangered European eel populations have been decimated, declining by up to 99% in Some regions by EU figures.
The small transparent eels known as “glass eels” are especially prized in Asia where it can be fattened on farms that exceed price of caviar in mid-first decade of the twenty-first century.