Smuggled glass eels from Europe intercepted at Suvarnabhumi airport this week. (Photo by Varuth Hirunyatheb)Customs officials have seized about 700 kilogrammes of European glass eels worth about 40 million baht at Suvarnabhumi airport, smuggled from Romania for sale in restaurants. Two consignments of the young eels were found at the airport, on Wednesday and Thursday. European eels were an important economic fish in Europe and had long been popular in expensive restaurants. The smuggled fish were young ones, elvers which were naturally transparent, so called glass eels.

Source: Bangkok Post December 21, 2018 10:52 UTC