Baby eels are known as elvers. Elvers are considered a delicacy in the Far East. Eels and elvers are endangered and because the demand from countries like China is so huge, export outside Europe has now been banned.
Where there's a ban and huge demand there's also money and smuggling. A kilo of elvers in China could cost £6,000. That's more than Beluga caviar.
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