Tag: Fish Crime

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  IFI gains conviction against solar firm for water pollution offence

  December 17, 2025

  Conviction: Solar development company “ib vogt GmbH”. “Silt disrupts the balance of the ecosystem, turns a river cloudy – irritating fish gills, smothering their eggs, and reducing the oxygen and good water quality they need to survive.”

  TAGS: Environmental Crime, Fish Crime, Fish Welfare, IFI, Inland Fisheries Ireland, Water

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  Major blow to billion-euro glass eel trafficking networks

  October 1, 2025

  Europol: Organised crime at the heart of trafficking – The latest iteration of Operation LAKE, which ran from October 2024 to June 2025, uncovered large-scale trafficking networks and disrupted the flow of live eels destined for illegal farms in Asia.

  TAGS: Animal Trafficking, Canada, DG SANTE, eels, EFCA, Enforcement, EU, Europol, Fish Crime, Fisheries Crime, France, Glass Eeels, OLAF, organised crime, Switzerland, UK, United Kingdom, United States, Wildlife Crime