The latest official advice realeased by the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) to the European Union (EU) shows that whilst there has been a slight increase in glass eel recruitment, the status of […]
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Is the ESB doing enough to help silver eels on the Shannon?
A press release from Inland Fisheries Ireland below indicates that they are satisfied with current silver eel mitigation measures used on the River Shannon. The current approach attempts to capture outmigrating silver eels in coghill […]
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. […]
Sales of jellied eels booming outside London
Sales of jellied eels are soaring outside London for the first time. Tesco has seen its jellied eel sales grow by 35 per cent in the past two years since it began selling them in places including […]
Plunging eel stocks spell hard times for a global delicacy
From the food stalls and pie shops of Dickensian London to haute cuisine restaurants in Tokyo, the eel has a long and rich culinary history that transcends classes and national borders. But it is becoming […]
“Eat and Protect” campaign to save Japanese eel
The million-plus strong Palsystem Consumers’ Co-operative Union has started an “Eat and Protect” fund-raising campaign to save the rapidly declining Japanese eel population by supporting efforts by eel farming areas seeking to replenish stocks. Due […]
River Teme eel release in bid to boost population
About 20,000 eels have been released into a Shropshire river as part of a project to boost numbers. The eels were taken out of the River Severn near Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, in June, and released into the […]
EC demands new legislation to save European eel
The EC said this week that fresh legislation is urgently needed to save the European eel stock. In a resolution this week, MEPs said that European eel stocks have declined by at least 95% in […]
IFM European Eel Conference: Breaking Down Barriers
IFM European Eel Conference: Breaking Down Barriers The conference was organised by the Institute of Fisheries Management, in association with the Sustainable Eel Group, Environment Agency and Fishmongers Company. It brought together an international line […]
Eels could take 200 years to recover, leading scientist warns
Eels are likely to take up to 200 years to recover to healthy levels even if Europe acts in concert to save it, a conference was told.Willem Dekker, one of the world’s leading experts on […]
European eels get a second chance at survival in UK rivers
Bristle-bottomed bridges are being fitted to weirs on Cumbrian rivers to enable European eels (Anguilla anguilla) to overcome the final barriers in their mammoth migrations that begin in the Sargasso Sea near Bermuda. Weirs, dams […]
