A fabric eel measuring almost 200m slithered its way through the wet Wellington streets today to deliver a petition to Parliament.
Around 50 people carried the symbolic longfin eel, which was created in segments by different schools and groups and sewed together.
The petition, signed by 5000 people, calls for a moratorium on the commercial fishing of longfin eels.
US-based activist Stephanie Bowman began making the giant eel four years ago when she discovered there was no protection for the species.
She also wrote a children's book called Velvet & Elvis: A Mother & Son Story of New Zealand's Longfin Eel and distributed it around schools.
Around 100 2m sections make up the fabric eel, put together by an estimated 5000 people from right across the country.
It will be permanently housed at the National Wetland Centre in the Waikato.
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