Working in concert with Ethic Ocean, the Association's World Culinary Council will lobby European ministers to protect biodiversity The members of Relais & Chateaux's World Culinary Council has voted to immediately remove eel from their own menus and are sending a call to action to the rest of the group's 580 hotels and restaurants to do the same, after its NGO partner Ethic Ocean launched an alert that public authorities must urgently listen to scientists who recommend suspending European eel