Glass Eel Trafficking: A Green Cultural Criminology Perspective

Glass Eel Trafficking: A Green Cultural Criminology Perspective explores the complex legal and illegal trade in European eels, with a particular focus on Spain as a key site of fishing, trading, and consumption.Long prized as a culinary delicacy and increasingly regarded as a luxury food, the European eel is now critically endangered, with overexploitation playing a major role in its dramatic decline.Its inclusion in Appendix II of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) has led to strict trade restrictions within the European Union, yet trafficking continues to flourish. Drawing on green cultural criminology, the book examines the intertwined cultural, economic, legal, and political dimensions of glass eel trafficking.Adopting multiple perspectives, it shows how cultural practices, along with material and symbolic values, shape and sustain both legal and illegal eel trade.In doing so, it highlights the broader harms associated with g