Canadian officials seize eel beef in 92-country wildlife sting

Canadian officials have seized 18 ton of suspected European eel beef as partial of a 92-country prick involving a trade of bootleg animal parts.

Environment Canada says officers in several provinces also intercepted shark fins and tranquil snakes, as good as products such as briefcases and handbags done from involved species.

The efforts were partial of Operation Thunderstorm, a month-long review led by a general law classification Interpol.

The supervision says sovereign and provincial officers legalised live animals in transport, responded to complaints of medium and wildlife destruction, and did hunter and angler checks.

The eel meat, that arrived in Canada from Asia, is from an involved class and has been criminialized for trade by a European Union given 2010.

Global wildlife crime — including poaching, bootlegging and trafficking of animals and plants — is estimated by a United Nations and Interpol to be value some-more than $200 billion a year, creation it a world’s fourth many remunerative form of crime.

Article source: https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/eel-meat-sting-1.4714424?cmp=rss