As we head into March, the first runs of glass eels and elvers are arriving at the upper Shannon estuary. Soon they will be migrating up the River Shannon along with tributaries of the Shannon estuary. […]
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Category: Elvers
Decision regarding ESB eel kill outstanding
A decision on whether to prosecute the ESB over a major kill of critically endangered juvenile European eels (or elvers) at their hydroelectric installation on the River Erne in County Donegal is still outstanding. The […]
Low elver catches at ESB dams despite upturn
The ESB have released their elver catch results for 2014, and confirm that the “elver run for the Shannon saw 354kg of elvers caught in total“. This is a very poor catch considering that this was […]
Tour of ESB’s and IFI’s elver traps, Summer 2014
In response to our work earlier in the year where we showed that ESB were not operating elver traps on the River Shannon (at either Ardnacrusha or Parteen) by the first week of May, a […]
Success in our campaign on the River Shannon
ESB finally commence elver trapping at Ardnacrusha in response to our complaints and exposure of management failures. We would like to confirm that, in response to our campaign on facebook page and our websites, ESB […]
No operating elver traps at Ardnacrusha, May 2014
Further to our previous posts about Ireland’s national elver monitoring stations and traps not being operational, we were genuinely astonished this evening when we visited Ardnacrusha Hydroelectric Station on the Lower River Shannon. Elver traps […]
Fishing for trout using elvers in Limerick City
You know that the elvers have arrived in Limerick when the locals start fishing for trout from the bridges in the city using elvers as bait. Elvers are collected at low tide and are mounted […]
National elver monitoring sites not operating
With rising water temperatures this week, we are now well into the elver migration season. However, we visited four of Ireland’s national juvenile eel monitoring sites this week and found that three out of the […]
The return of the eel?
The European eel is currently staging a remarkable comeback, with record numbers of juvenile eels arriving to the European coast from the Sargasso Sea for the third consecutive year. The reasons for the change in […]
Record glass eel numbers for third consecutive year
Eels have been caught in record numbers in France for the third year running, leading conservationists to suggest their decline may have bottomed out. Quotas in three of the main eel rivers in France have been met so […]
Maine elver fishery to face harvest cuts in 2014
Regulators have agreed to allow Maine’s lucrative glass eel fishery to remain open next year as long as Maine officials devise a plan that will cut the state’s 2014 catch by at least 25 percent. […]
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