Gulper eels are found deep underwater with little known information about them. Watch this video of a gulper eel ballooning ...

Andrew Kerr, founder and chairman of Sustainable Eel Group, supports Mr Fleming's petition. "The future is conservation fishing - we get the eels out the river, we get the eels into classrooms ...

The fish mainly dwell at depths of between 400 and 2,000 meters. Reaching a length of about 1 meter, the blackish eel has a large mouth and preys on squid and other fish, eating them whole.