SEGs COP2O Ends? 1/11 COP20 wraps up and somehow SEG wants applause for offering… more workshops, more guidance, more “capacity building.” Translation: lots of talking, very little doing. Meanwhile, Anguilla species continue to get hammered in the real world. @EU_MARE

SEGs RESOLUTION 87: 1/5 Resolution 87: 5,000 words of bureaucratic poetry about saving eels… without actually saving eels. Endless “frameworks” and “assessments” = lots of talk, zero action. @ CITES CoP20 #Ee|Deal2030 @OceanaEurope

SEGs Deception 1/7 SEG says illegal glass-eel trade dropped 80%. Reality: these are self-reported estimates, based on SEG-backed studies, not independent data. #WildlifeCrime #EuropeanEel @EU_MARE @CITES #EelCrisis

SEGs Certification? 1/12 Let’s stop pretending: A certification that doesn’t guarantee 100% certified product is nothing but a logo. And that’s exactly the problem with @SustainableEel’s SEG certification. @ISEALalliance @DefraGovUK

SEGs ISEAL Silence? 1/10 Everyone keeps asking: “Why hasn’t ISEAL explained SEG’s suspension?” Simple: ISEAL only goes quiet when the failures are serious enough to shake the system. #EelCrisis #Accountability @CITES

SEGs Marketing Badge 1/6 The Sustainable Eel Group claims to champion eel conservation — but guess who they actually listen to? Fishing lobbyists, not scientists. Why save wild eels when you can keep the consumption conveyor belt humming? #EelGate #SustainableScamSE

SEGs Hindering 1/8 The programme in Kaliningrad was helping replenish the critically endangered European eel (Anguilla anguilla) by releasing young in eels into the Vistula & Curonian Lagoon systems. @FTM_eut @CITES #EelHypocrisy

SEGs Contradictions 1/10 Contradiction #1: SEG says it wants to “save the European eel”… …but then fights against CITES Appendix I, the highest protection level. If the eel is dying, why block the protection? Who benefits from keeping trade open? @FTM_eut @CITES @DefraGovUK

SEGs Delusion 1/8 The @eelgroup is pushing hard at #CITESCOP2025 to get eels listed on Appendix II worldwide, aiming to curb the illegal trade—especially the pipeline to China. But here’s the problem @FTM_eut @CITES @DEFRA @AquacultureEurope @ISEALalliance

SEGs Two Tier “Kerr” 1/9 Why is the Sustainable Eel Group (SEG) fighting so hard against putting the European eel on CITES Appendix I? Appendix I = NO international trade. If the eel is critically endangered, why defend the trade? Who are they really protecting? @ICESmarine

SEGs Record 1/5 SEG suspended by ISEAL. This isn’t a warning it’s a full credibility collapse. ISEAL almost never suspends a member, and there’s no real precedent for a suspended standard being fully reinstated. This is a massive red flag #SEG #EelTrade @FTM_eut @CITES @EU_MARE

SEGs Kicker 1/5 SEG suspended by ISEAL and here’s the kicker: no other sustainability standard has ever been suspended and fully reinstated. SEG is blazing new ground… with no precedent. Red flag for anyone trusting their certification. #SEG #EelTrade @FTM_eut @CITES @EU_MARE

SEGs Certified Farms 1/9 Eel farms might sound sustainable — like they raise young eels just like other aquaculture. But SEG-certified farms don’t work that way. They rely entirely on taking young eels from the wild, not breeding them. That’s the real starting point. @DEFRA

SEGs Reproduction? 1/10 SEG (Sustainable Eel Group) markets European eel as “sustainable.” Reality: every eel eaten, even farmed, stops millions of potential offspring from ever spawning. @DEFRA @FTM_eut @CITES @EU_MARE

SEGs Commercial Exploitation 1/11 Europe restocks tens of millions of baby eels every year. Sounds impressive, right? But here’s the real picture when you compare restocking numbers to the number of adult eels killed for consumption. Spoiler: the math is brutal @CITES

SEGs Greenwashing

SEGs Appetite 1/10 Let’s cut the crap: Europe is devouring the European eel, a critically endangered species, like nothing is wrong. The numbers aren’t small. They’re insane. #Accountability @DanSaladinoUk @DEFRA @FTM_eut @CITES @EU_MARE

SEGs Power Loop 1/9 Let’s be clear: DUPAN funds SEG. SEG is the group that hands out the “sustainable eel” stamp. So the industry financially supports the body that certifies its own operations. That’s not independence that’s influence. @ISEALalliance @FTM_eut @CITES @EU_MARE

SEGs Industry Support? 1/9 Why is Dupan constantly applauding SEG, giving them credit, and promoting them nonstop on social media? You’re celebrating an organisation that is currently suspended by ISEAL Suspended means not compliant. What exactly is there to applaud? @CITES

SEGs Suspiciousness 1/11 The Sustainable Eel Group claims to “champion” the European eel — yet their own actions tell a very different story. The organisation is surrounded by serious problems that cannot be ignored any longer. @ISEALalliance #Ee|Deal2030 #AgriFish

SEGs Panic Revision 1/11 What I just saw from @SustainableEel is wildly alarming. A certificate for SAS Estuaires gets published… then QUIETLY ALTERED WITHIN HOURS. This isn’t transparency — it’s a giant red flag. 🧵👇 #EelCrisis #ConservationFail @ISEALalliance

SEGs Cover Up 1/11 The Sustainable Eel Group (SEG) claims to protect the eel. But the certification for SAS Estuaires (SEG-0071) shows serious discrepancies that raise major concerns about transparency and credibility. @ISEALalliance @ICES

(5) SEGs SAS Estuaires Certification? 1/8 Let’s talk about how weak and inconsistent SEG’s certification system really is — using one example: SAS Estuaires, certified for “Responsibly Sourced” glass eel trading. #EelTruth @ISEALalliance @Cites @DefraGovUK

(4) SEGs Mysterious Guarantee? 1/10 SEG just updated its “Register of organisations achieving the SEG Standard.” It lists companies trading in “Responsibly Sourced European Eel.” Sounds good — until you read the fine print. #EelConservation #Ee|Deal2030 @ISEALalliance

SEGs “Conditional Pass” SEG's 'conditional pass' for that French eel fishery: Issued March 2022, audit due Dec 2022... still pending in 2025. That's not sustainable fishing—that's sustainable “bureaucracy”! Congrats on outlasting the eels themselves. @eelgroup @ISEAL_Alliance @DefraGovUK

(3) SEGs Complacency 1/6 The Sèvre Niortaise Glass Eel Fishery’s conditional SEG certificate was issued Mar 2022, valid till Mar 2026. Audit due Dec 2022 — still conditional. Why is a “temporary” approval running 4 years? #EelTruth @ISEALalliance @Cites @DefraGovUK

(2) SEGs Conditionally Certified? 1/5 SEG is giving conditional passes to eel fisheries — meaning they haven’t fully met sustainability standards but can still call their product “responsibly sourced.” This is a critically endangered species we’re talking about @ICES_ASC

SEGs 2025 Register? 1/6 🪱 The “Sustainable” Eel Group (SEG) just updated its 2025 register of “responsibly sourced” European eel traders. But if you look closer, it’s a masterclass in greenwashing. 👇 @EU_MARE @ CITES CoP20 @DEFRA #Ee|Deal2030

SEGs Whispers After 6 weeks of silence, SEG finally whispers: “we were suspended by ISEAL.” No explanation of "why". No detail on "failures". No disclosure of *audit findings*. That’s not accountability. That’s damage control. #ISEALexit #EcoMask @DefraGovUK @EU_MARE @ICES_ASC

SEGs Whispers After 6 weeks of silence, SEG finally whispers: “we were suspended by ISEAL.” No explanation of "why". No detail on "failures". No disclosure of *audit findings*. That’s not accountability. That’s damage control. #ISEALexit #EcoMask @DefraGovUK @EU_MARE @ICES_ASC

SEGs Connection 1/8 Dupan — the Dutch Sustainable Eel Sector Foundation — slammed ICES for saying all human-caused eel mortality should go to zero. Here’s the ugly truth: this isn’t about science. It’s about money. #Accountability @EU_MARE @ CITES CoP20 @DanSaladinoUK

SEGs Dissolved by a Belgian court. 1/14 “BREAKING NEWS” The “Sustainable Eel Group” (SEG) — the organization behind the SEG certification for eel — has been dissolved by a Belgian court. The same group claiming to certify “sustainable” eel couldn’t even file its own accounts.

SEGs Collapse The collapse of the Sustainable Eel Group From court-ordered dissolution to suspension by @ISEALAlliance, SEG has failed on every level yet still promotes itself and influences fisheries. How can this group be trusted? More to follow @ CITES CoP20 @DefraGovUK

SEGs Systemic Collapse 1/8 SEG claims its certification guarantees legal and sustainable eel farming. But here’s the problem — most French farms lost SEG certification last year. So how can SEG possibly know what’s legal or illegal in its “certified” supply chains?

SEGs Silence? 1/7 If you’re truly “Code Compliant,” you don’t hide a revocation. SEG still promotes its June 2025 Code validity— but says nothing about the 16 Sept 2025 suspension. That’s not conservation. That’s concealment. 🔍 ISEAL Principle 7: Transparency. #EelCrisis

SEGs Silence ? SEG has been suspended by ISEAL — and their response? Total silence. No statement. No transparency. No warning to the industry. If they had nothing to be ashamed of, they’d speak. This silence screams guilt. #SEGcoverup #CITES #ISEAL #EelCrisis #Accountability

SEGs #CITES CoP20 @ISEALAlliance has confirmed that the @SustainableEelGroup (SEG) is currently SUSPENDED. Yet SEG keeps advertising itself as an ISEAL Code Compliant sustainability body — even in PR tied to the upcoming #CITES CoP20. 👇 #Eels #ConservationFail

Every year: 🐟 ≈2,000 t of eels processed for food DUPAN 🐍 ≈5–10 t “helped migrate” under #PalingOverDeDijk ➜ That’s **0.25–0.5 %** “saved” Yet both @eelgroup & @dupan_info call this “responsible recovery”. #EU @ICESmarine #EelConservation #Accountability

@eelgroup reposts @dupan_info. @dupan_info reposts @eelgroup. The “protectors” and the “processors” applauding each other — one sells *sustainability certificates*, the other sells *eels*. #EelRecovery or #EelIndustry PR loop? #Transparency #EelConservation

SEGs Chairman 1/15 On BBC Radio 4, SEG Chair Andrew Kerr said he “doesn’t support UK glass-eel exports to Kaliningrad” unless there are “assurance certificates safeguarding sustainability, traceability, or genuine restocking.” But here’s what he didn’t mention 👇

Today 31st October 11:00am BBC Radio 4 Eels and Elvers Dan Saladino explores the dramatic decline in eel populations and asks whether the species can be saved. On the River Severn, he meets the last of the glass eel fishermen and the conservationists fighting to protect them.

The Sustainable Eel Groups suspension ISEAL suspension isn’t a footnote—it’s a governance failure. SEG’s silence raises serious questions: – Why was it suspended? – What transparency rules were violated? – Why is the eel industry still in the dark? #EelGate

SEG: ✅ Certifies eel killing for profit ❌ Blocks eel restoration in Baltic lagoons That’s not conservation. That’s cartel logic. #EelCrisis #Greenwashing #BalticBlockade @DefraGovUK

SEG preaches 'eat eels to save them' while stocks nosedive to oblivion. ESF? A vicious loop of exploitation dressed as charity. Ties to trade crooks, ISEAL boot for opacity—it's all rot. Time to gut the quotas, not the last wild eels. #BanEelTradeNow @guardianeco