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Those images? Maybe 50 eels per bucket, each 0.5–1kg. Looks impressive. But every one of these eels began life as a juvenile glass eel extracted from the wild.

#PalingOverDeDijk
@EU_Commission
@EU_ENV
@ISEALAlliance

Every year:
🐟 ≈2,000 t of eels processed for food DUPAN
🐍 ≈5–10 t “helped migrate” under #PalingOverDeDijk
➜ That’s **0.25–0.5 %** “saved”
Yet both @eelgroup & @dupan_info call this “responsible recovery”.
#EU @ICESmarine #EelConservation #Accountability

Duizend Palingen Over De Dijk bij Harlingen in 2017

Ondertussen wordt het programma #PalingOverDeDijk uitgevoerd op de belangrijkste knelpunten voor naar zee trekkende #paling. Deze TV-reportage legt het belang uit: bit.ly/48UO4dc