Trade in live eels hit hard
London correspondent Ailing eels from New Zealand’ have dealt a 'harp blow to hopes of a burgeoning Belgium trade in delicacy. Two one -tonne conrignments of live eels asrf eighted f!- om Au< kland to Brussels m recent weeks were more dead than alive on arrival. Almost 3000 eets from
Lake Ellesmere, SO per cent of one shipment, died after being offloaded and held up at Los Angeles, and all 3500 North Island river eels were iuuno to be dead in then polystyrene containers when thev arrived at Brussels Airport last week A New Zealand trade official in Brussels said the first consignmen. had
taken 95 hours to reach Belgium instead of the usual 48 hours. The second shipment might have been put in water which was too cold. It was the first time the two exporters had sent live eels to Belgium. The Belgium importer, who has suddenly lost interest in- live eeis, was also new to the trade.
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