A team led by Dr David Baker from the University’s Conservation Forensics laboratory, has recently published the results from an investigation into European eel products on sale in Hong Kong supermarkets. Nearly 50% of retail eel products surveyed were determined to be European eel. The results from this study suggested that large scale smuggling networks trafficking European eels are interwoven with local supplier chains, resulting in endangered species ending up on supermarket shelves, totally unbeknownst to consumers.

For the paper in Science Advances:

https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/10/eaayS0317

It already attracts considerable media interests:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-51726617

https://phys.org/news/2020-03-prevalence-endangered-european-eel-hong.html

https://www.thestandard.com.hk/section-news.php?id=216991&sid=4&sid=4

https://hk.appledaily.com/local/20200305/KPSQ4QLUYZDUWRL47PIEUCF2YM/

https://std.stheadline.com/daily/article/detail/2164962/%E6%97%A5%E5%A0%B1-%E6%95%99%E8%82%B2-%E6%B8%AF%E5%A4%A7%E7%A0%94%E7%A9%B6-%E6%B8%AF%E8%BF%91%E5%8D%8A%E9%B0%BB%E9%AD%9A%E7%94%A2%E5%93%81%E5%B1%AC%E7%80%95%E5%8D%B1

https://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/news/20200306/00176_064.html

https://hk.on.cc/hk/bkn/cnt/news/20200305/bkn-20200305144641077-0305_00822_001.html

https://topick.hket.com/article/2582502