Eels in the illegal wildlife trade
WildTrace has recorded 9 cases involving eels from public reports between 2024-01-15 and 2026-09-23, in 1 countries. 3 of them rest on an official or validated source.
CITES appendix II. Taxa covered: Anguilla anguilla, Anguilla spp.. Counts show where this trade is reported, not where it happens: reporting is uneven between countries and languages, and cases whose reports name no place are counted but cannot be mapped.
Where eels cases are reported
Recent cases
- Seizure · Eels · location unknown 2026-09-22 · single
- Seizure · Eels · location unknown 2026-09-15 · corroborated
- Seizure · Eels · location unknown 2026-09-09 · single
- Seizure · Eels · location unknown 2026-04-01 · official
- Seizure · Eels · Asia 2026-03-24 · single
- Seizure · Eels · 400 kilos · location unknown 2026-03-22 · single
- Seizure · Eels · location unknown 2025-09-25 · official
- Seizure · Eels · location unknown 2025-06-23 · single
- Seizure · Eels · 5 tonnes · location unknown 2024-10-03 · official
Where seized eels came from, and where it was seized
12 shipments of eels seized or confiscated were reported to CITES since 2015 (CITES Trade Database, source code I). Counts are shipment records, not quantities, and some countries report far more completely than others.
Taken from
- China 1
- Spain 1
- Italy 1
- Portugal 1
Seized in
- United States 12