Top Tweets for #SaveTheEels
7/7 — @EnvAgency, where the pass is ineffective, what remedial action has been taken or planned? Is it delivering effective eel passage, and where is the evidence? @DefraGovUK #EelGate #SaveTheEels
7/8
Serious question for the EA:
If Mill Pitt remains a barrier to migratory species, how is this being reconciled with the WFD and Water Environment (WFD) Regulations 2017?
The public deserves evidence, not assurances.
#EelGate
#SaveTheEels
#Greenwashing
#ICES
6/8
Where are the raw counts?
Where are the monitoring records?
Where are the mortality figures?
Where are the calculations behind the estimates?
#EelGate
#SaveTheEels
#Greenwashing
5/7
This makes little sense when many millions of juvenile eels arrive every year only to become trapped and die because migration routes remain blocked. A chance to strengthen struggling populations is being refused.
#EelGate
#SaveTheEels
#Greenwashing
#ICES
@leerust1966 I was just thinking the same, that they could be collected and moved, like #toads are moved across roads by #toadpatrols. #SaveTheEels
5/7
Where barriers cannot be removed immediately, these eels should be safely collected and relocated to suitable habitats to give them a chance of survival.
#EelGate
#SaveTheEels
#Greenwashing
6/8
These critically endangered baby eels bottleneck at barriers — trapped, exhausted, and left to die in their millions.
Every year. Every season.
A silent genocide of a species that has survived for thousands of years.
#EelCrisis
#SaveTheEels
#RiverSevern
2/8
From the Sargasso Sea, it has travelled thousands of kilometres — a perilous odyssey across the Atlantic.
Now, it must face the most dangerous stretch: our rivers.
Upstream. Against impossible odds.
@WWF_UK @EnvAgency
#SaveTheEels
7/8
A life cycle repeated for thousands of years.
Ancient. Fragile. Extraordinary.
And today, increasingly under threat.
#EelGate
#SaveTheEels
4/8
Think about that: people rescue them, nurture them for a year — and bureaucracy could still kill them. This is preventable destruction of a species.
#SaveTheEels
#Greenwashing
#ICES
7/8
If credibility is the goal, the eel sector needs more than “simplified standards”.
It needs transparency, independent science, full traceability and a genuinely precautionary approach to harvesting a critically endangered species.
#EelGate
#SaveTheEels
#Greenwashing
7/9
Millions of juvenile eels reach man-made weirs, sluices, and flood barriers every year and cannot pass. Assisted migration is not allowed or authorised, leaving them trapped.
#EelGate
#SaveTheEels
@itvnews
I hope he throws them all in the ocean when he’s done with them #SaveTheEels
I want to find a way to get this kid 4000 car batteries
5/5
This is a species in catastrophic decline. Blocking migration = blocking reproduction = extinction.
This isn’t conservation. It’s negligence.
#EelGate
#SaveTheEels
@itvnews
@Telegraph
@CITES
#EelCrisis
4/8
Silver eel escapement — the key recovery metric — is not directly measured in the Severn. It’s modelled. With the loss of fishery data, these models become even more detached from reality.
@DEFRA
#EelGate
#SaveTheEels
5/8
Local counts, tagging, eel passes… exist. National migration and spawner data? ZERO!Track it, record it, publish—or admit we’re failing UK eels.
#Accountability
@DEFRA
#EelGate
#SaveTheEels
3/6
We’re talking a critically endangered species. SEG’s slow, sloppy recertification isn’t protection—it’s eelwashing. A “sustainability label” that doesn’t safeguard eels is worthless marketing.
#EelGate
#SaveTheEels
#Greenwashing
SEGs Shield
The Sustainable Eel Group (SEG) presents itself as a conservation body.
In reality, it functions as a PR shield for continued exploitation of a critically endangered species.
#EelDeal2030
#SaveTheEels
#GreenwashingAlert
SEGs Deception
“After repeated failures—ISEAL suspension, court appearances, and lapsed certifications etc —the Sustainable Eel Group has gone into hiding. This exposes their false claims and a fake system built on deception.”
#EelDeal2030
#EelGate
#SaveTheEels
#Eelwashing
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