By Alisha Houlihan for AMLi
The United States Justice Department has indicted a major seafood company and eight of its employees for running a major seafood trafficking ring that involved threatened eels.
The American Eel Depot Corporation of Totowa, New Jersey were indicted on charges of “smuggling, Lacey Act violations and conspiracy to violate the Endangered Species Act,” the Justice Department said in a press release.
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