Jakob Bergengren, environmental engineer, peers into the box of eel fry that he will release into the water.
Lyssna: Thousands of eel fry released in effort to save remaining population
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Some 70,000 eel fry were released into the Stångån river in Linköping on Tuesday.
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Jakob Bergengren, environmental engineer at the municipally owned company Tekniska verken, says that eels have existed for millions of years, but about 95% of the European eel stock is gone.
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“We’re doing everything we can to save the last 5% and get the population to grow,” he says.