According to Japan's "Asahi news" reported on 10, the Japanese like eating all kinds of fish, the fish is Roasted Eel have deep roots and japanese. However, the World Conservation Union (IUCN) announced, have been identified to be included in the introduction of eel endangered species "Red Book (Revised Edition)".
The report points out, this means that the eel will be designated as an endangered species. Although not directly lead to the sale and consumption of eel eel ban, but in the future international trade will likely limit.
In most Japanese for edible eel, a domestic or imported from Japan captured fry after cultured Japanese eel, also imported directly from the eel.
This year the Japanese domestic fry catch even after a lapse of several years has been restored, but the long term is still decreasing trend. Half a century ago, Japan fry years of trapping volume is about 200 tons, but until 2012 3 years, the number is only 3 to 6 tons. Catch eel also showed a decreasing trend of natural.
The World Conservation Union is an international natural by the state and the nature conservation organizations to join, the world's largest conservation organization. The IUCN Red Data Book according to the degree of the crisis will be divided into "endangered species", "endangered" and "data deficient" 8 grades. 19 kinds of eel will contain the Japanese eel, listed in the red data book, experts began to conduct scientific assessment since last July.
Eel was included in the red data book and regulation is not directly related to. But in the international trade of wildlife to the provisions of the "Washington Convention", often in the World Conservation Union Red Data book as an important reference for the control, the next international conference and in 2016 will be held, if the participants in the proposed control policy, and voted in favour of the junior high school 2/3, for commercial purposes. International trade will be included in the prohibition of eels trade "appendix one", or the license to export country was included in the "appendix two". |
