📰 Hoy salgo el semanal de @elpais.com “Sean cuales sean las causas del declive de la anguila, la cuestión es si existe algún nivel de pesquería que sea sostenible y la respuesta es que no”
!Acercaos al kiosko! @azti.bsky.social @elpaiscyt.bsky.social shorturl.at/BykyC

Tras lo ocurrido esta semana, he querido hacer un repaso a las advertencias de la comunidad científica sobre el declive de la anguila. Desde los 80 con los primeros avisos, y desde 1999 con recomendaciones claras de frenar su pesca.

Hola,
@miteco.gob.es
Una duda
¿De dónde sale la necesidad de acatar las decisiones de la Comisión Estatal sobre listados de protección?
La ley 42/2007 define la Comisión como órgano consultivo
¿Qué impide legalmente a MITECO ejercer su competencia sobre el contenido de lespre y catálogo?

España seguirá pescando anguilas hasta su extinción El bloqueo de la protección de la anguila europea en España por parte de las comunidades autónomas, materializado este martes, es un triste ejemplo de la influencia del negacionismo científico.

El negacionismo científico que lleva a no proteger la anguila acaba con un antivacumas desquiciado de ministro de sanidad. Y la cosa no tiene ninguna gracia
España seguirá pescando anguilas hasta su extinción
@es.theconversation.com
@ebdonana.bsky.social
theconversation.com/espana-segui...

Fracasa el nuevo intento de prohibir la pesca de la anguila y la angula ante la negativa de las comunidades autónomas - Climática, el medio especializado en clima y biodiversidad La anguila europea y su alevín, la angula, no entrarán en el Catálogo Español de Especies Amenazadas como pretendía el Ministerio de Sara Aagesen. La comunidad científica lleva décadas reclamando fren...

Fracasa el nuevo intento de prohibir la pesca de la anguila y la angula ante la negativa de las comunidades autónomas, que quieren MÁS estudios e informes.

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Estíbaliz Díaz: "¿Existe hoy en día una pesquería sostenible de la anguila? La respuesta es que no" - Climática, el medio especializado en clima y biodiversidad La presidenta del grupo de trabajo de la anguila en el ICES analiza la situación de la especie y las medidas para evitar que se extinga.

@estidiaz.bsky.social, una de las mayores experta del mundo en la anguila y presidenta del grupo de trabajo que aconseja a la Comisión Europea:

«¿Existe hoy en día una pesquería sostenible de la anguila? La respuesta es que no»

Entrevista en @climatica.coop.

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🏅🎓 La @urv.cat ha concedit els premis extraordinaris de doctorat, reconeixen les tesis doctorals amb el més alt nivell de qualitat.

✨ Entre les tesis guardonades hi ha la recerca de la Dra. Mònica Pons, centrada en el tràfic de l’anguila europea des d’una perspectiva de criminologia verda.

Movimiento importantísimo de @miteco.gob.es
Gracias
Ánimo
A ver si, por fin y de una vez, podemos proteger a la anguila
Para que no haya confusión: MITECO ya tiene el dictamen (claro, demoledor) del comité científico. NO es un asunto que trate solo con gentes de las cocinas

Error
Consumir o no una especie que se está extinguiendo no debe depender de las conciencias.
Hay que prohibir
Mientras no se haga, quienes no tenemos capacidad de decidir apelaremos a las conciencias.
Pero las administraciones deben actuar y cambiar cosas
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📣 3 post doc roles on GreenFrontier @erc.europa.eu project - fantastic opportunities to work on an exciting project on socio-ecological relations in Italy, Spain & Poland. And best of all, a chance to work with @georgeiorda.bsky.social as team lead #PoliticalEcology #Conservation ⬇️

Postdoc GreenFrontier - Politics of Conservation and Unequal Ecological Exchange in European Peripheries' - the case of Spain

Details on the position with Spanish are here www.wur.nl/nl/vacature/...

🚨 We are looking for 3 new colleagues to join the GreenFrontier team as Postdoctoral Researchers!

Deadline for applications: 25 Nov 2025

Each of the 3 openings will involve extended ethnographic fieldwork + plenty of opportunities to consolidate research & leadership skills!

Please share widely!

Plastic waste trafficking in Spain: examining the actors, routes, and crimes involved - Trends in Organized Crime The management of plastic waste represents a significant global environmental challenge due to excessive reliance on plastics and the limitations of recycling. The inability of countries and cities to...

📣Publication alert!

“Plastic waste trafficking in Spain: examining the actors, routes, and crimes involved”

Available OA here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

I am thilled I got to contribute to this story! A must read by @alexandratalty.bsky.social !!

GREEN Newsletter 2(2)

🍂 Just like autumn, the new issue of the GREEN Working Group newsletter has arrived! 🍁

This edition is packed with updates and insights!

Whether you're deep into #greencriminology or just curious about the latest developments, this issue has something for you.

🔗 www.uu.nl/en/research/...

“Internal Souths” in the Global North Much of the research on wildlife trafficking often centres on countries in the Global South, which are frequently rich in biodiversity. Such research frames these countries as the primary sources of t...

Happy to share that a chapter I wrote with Avi Brisman is out! Here we challenge the conventional North-South narrative in wildlife trafficking research by employing the idea of “internal Souths” within affluent countries.

Read the full chapter here: link.springer.com/rwe/10.1007/...

Bottom trawling to continue in English protected waters, government rules Defra says blanket ban on ‘destructive’ fishing practice disproportionate as MPs urge minister to reconsider

Have they not seen Attenborough’s latest documentary??

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The Paradox of Saving Fish by Eating them: Food Crime at the Intersection of Green Criminology and Political Ecology - European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research Aquaculture is framed as a key contributor to global food security and sustainable food production. Yet, in its industrial form, it involves several harmful practices that negatively impact food secur...

Working on a report on aquaculture, focused on salmon farming.

Study frames this, rightly, as "food crime", which reveals "how practices that are presented as ‘sustainable’ or ‘green’ can entail systemic environmental & social injustices"

@theferret.scot

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Thank you so much, Rosaleen! 🤩

Really important article examining #harms from @monicapons.bsky.social & @guillemrubio.bsky.social comparing #AtlanticSalmon & #EuropeanEel in #Aquaculture. The narrative of ecological sustainability & reduced pressure on ‘wild’ fish needs a fundamental rethink #PoliticalEcology #GreenCriminology ⬇️

Thank you, Hannah! Your work has been really inspiring!! 🤩

Love the abstract of this paper. Congratulations, Monica!

Thank you so much! It means a lot!

The Paradox of Saving Fish by Eating them: Food Crime at the Intersection of Green Criminology and Political Ecology - European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research Aquaculture is framed as a key contributor to global food security and sustainable food production. Yet, in its industrial form, it involves several harmful practices that negatively impact food secur...

"The Paradox of Saving Fish by Eating Them: Food Crime at the Intersection of Green Criminology and Political Ecology" is out!

I’m thrilled I got to work with the lovely @guillemrubio.bsky.social—I genuinely enjoyed and had fun working on the manuscript together 🧡
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

New paper on harms-based political ecology - Beastly Business Our team members Alison Hutchinson, Rosaleen Duffy, George Iordachescu and Teresa Lappe-Osthege developed an idea of bringing together debates on harms from green criminology with political ecology co...

1/ 📄New paper! Alison Hutchinson @georgeiorda.bsky.social Teresa Lappe-Osthege & myself have developed a new harms-based #PoliticalEcology as a way of understanding the #WildlifeTrade published in @jpoliticalecology.bsky.social ⬇️
beastlybusiness.org/2025/07/23/n...

Join us in Athens for this year’s GREEN Working Group Pre-ESC event "Environmental crime, policing & social control"🌎

Excellent piece on #GlassEel trade in @mongabay.com - and as ever @monicapons.bsky.social is absolutely spot on. Eel consumption always relies on wild caught fish, & the valuable trade attracts criminal networks #IWT #WildlifeTrade #EuropeanEel #EnvironmentalCrime

Glass eel smuggling booms despite bans, leaving species on the brink Tiny, translucent and no longer than a finger, juvenile European eels, also known as glass eels, might not look like much. But demand for these slippery creatures, particularly in East Asia, has made ...

I recently contributed to a Mongabay article on the illegal glass eel trade—a critical issue for environmental crime research.
Thank you, Keith Anthony Fabro, for giving me the chance to share insights on this topic and engaging with my work.

📖 Read it here: 
news.mongabay.com/2025/06/glas...

I've just watched Attenborough's Oceans film. It's excellent. But my overwhelming feeling is "at last!" I've been waiting, and fruitlessly lobbying, for a film like this for 40 years. But the institutional cowardice of the broadcasters has stymied such projects, until now.

Animals that feed nations and nations that feed animals: industrially farmed pigs as nation-building resources in Catalonia This paper examines industrially farmed pigs in Catalonia, a stateless nation within Spain and a major pig meat producer, to expand existing understan…

My first paper from my PhD is out! In it, I argue that viewing pigs as both resources (that feed) and as more-than-resources (to be fed) is crucial for understanding how nonhuman animals make nations and how, in turn, nations make nonhuman animals.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...