Salmon Fishing, in Question in Spain: Request that It Be Declared 'in Danger of Extinction'

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Ana Tuñas Matilla The association for the conservation of the Saxífraga biodiversity has formally requested from the Ministry for the Ecological Transition the inclusion of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) in the Spanish Catalogue of Threatened Species in the category of "in danger of extinction" throughout the national territory, an unprecedented request in the country. In the opinion of the organization, the species should be included in the cata…

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"We are not willing to consent to the extinction of salmon as distressed spectators." This phrase, pronounced by Ignacio Martínez, president of the association for the conservation of biodiversity 'Saxifraga', summarizes the feeling of more than twenty collectives, among them those integrated in the Network of Environmental Representation of Asturies (RRAA), who have decided to take a step forward in the struggle for the survival of the species …