lizards, snakes, insects, sometimes even fish,
photograph Robert F. Bukaty/The Associated Press, but never at this scale, 109 kilograms of
elvers or glass eels as they are known, were found being smuggled by just one person, elvers weigh just a few grams and are
less than 10 centimetres long, the baby eels, sometimes called glass eels, are
typically flown to Asia where they're raised to maturity and sold for food and
used in unagi dishes at sushi restaurants, federal data shows 149 people have
been arrested for elver-related crimes, and nearly 208 kilograms of elvers have
been seized so far this year, but this is the biggest so far, the haul was
estimated to be worth between $400,000 and $500,000! for the full story have a look here.
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