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Communities Reject Eel as Endangered Species for the Third Time

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For the third time, communities reject eel as an endangered species despite its sharp decline.

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Miteco will try for the fourth time to include eel in the catalogue of threatened species after the autonomous communities again curbed the proposal in the Flora and Fauna Committee. The Ministry maintains that the decline of the species is “absolutely descending” and that the risk of extinction is approaching the point of no return. The Secretary of State for the Environment, Hugo Morán, has argued that the decision is not political but scienti…

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For the third time, communities reject eel as an endangered species despite its sharp decline.

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The popular Valencian "all i pebre" will be able to continue cooking with its main ingredient: the eel. The proposal of the Ministry for the Ecological Transition and Demographic Challenge (Miteco) to declare this animal as endangered species has been rejected for the third time at the meeting of the Committee of Flora and Fauna Silvestres between this ministry and the autonomous communities.According to sources of the Miteco, the Valencian Comm…

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The European eel (Anguilla anguilla) and its breeding, the angula, will continue to be fished. Autonomies have refused to include the species in the Spanish Catalogue of Threatened Species, in the category of endangered species, in the Committee of Flora and Fauna, made up of the Government and the communities, held on Tuesday. Galicia, Asturias, Cantabria, Murcia, Valencian Community and Balearic Islands, where the species is exploited, have be…

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According to sources from Miteco, Galicia, Asturias, Cantabria, Murcia, the Valencian Community and the Balearic Islands, they have opposed the proposal of the ministry to raise the regime of protection of the eel, "noting again the scientific criterion and the evidence of the alarming decline of the species" in the past decades. The proposal presented to the Committee to include the European eel in the Spanish Catalogue of Threatened Species, i…

The proposal of the Ministry for the Ecological Transition and Demographic Challenge (Miteco) to declare eel as a species in danger of extinction has been rejected for the third time at the meeting of the Committee of Wild Flora and Fauna between this ministry and the autonomous communities, reports EFE.According to sources from Miteco, Galicia, Asturias, Cantabria, Murcia, Valencian Community and Balearic Islands have opposed the ministry's pro…

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El Periódico broke the news in Barcelona, Spain on Tuesday, February 17, 2026.
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