Professional fisherman Mickael Vallee holds some glass eels he fished on the Loire river in Cordemais in western France in March 2015. Photo: AFP
Chinese man and woman caught in France smuggling 60kg of live baby eels onto plane in suitcases
- ‘Glass eels’ can fetch US$5,600 a kilogram in China, with prosecutor calling case an example of ‘new form of trafficking that is exploding’
- Woman, 20, and man, 44, were given a fine and 10-month suspended prison sentence
Professional fisherman Mickael Vallee holds some glass eels he fished on the Loire river in Cordemais in western France in March 2015. Photo: AFP
