Four Asian nations agree to 20 percent cut in Japanese glass eel grow out
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [Kyodo News] - September 17, 2014 -
TOKYO, Representatives of Japan, China, South Korea and Taiwan agreed Wednesday at a multilateral forum on conserving the endangered Japanese eel to cut the volume of young eels put into aquaculture ponds by 20 percent from recent levels, the Japanese Fisheries Agency said.
The representatives, who began their meeting in Tokyo on Tuesday, also agreed to set up an international entity to effectively manage eels, the agency said.
In June, the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources, or IUCN, put the Japanese eel on a red list of species at risk of extinction, citing overfishing of juveniles and the destruction of freshwater habitats among reasons for its decline.
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