The Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs Minister Andrew Muir announced the £100,000 package to support fishermen after the eel-fishing season was abandoned in Summer 2025, for the first time in ...

All 19 species of Anguillid eels migrate from the sea, where they are born, to the freshwater systems in which they grow. After a period of up to 20 years, they reach maturity and return to the sea to ...

The European Eel is a critically endangered fish species with a dramatic decline the past 30 years, less than 5% is left of the stock. Conservation efforts have so far failed to deliver and scientific ...

In the Ebro River delta, the fishing of elver (an eel, Anguilla anguilla) leads to the accidental capture of other fish species, with the capture of one ton of elver possibly resulting in the capture ...

AbstractTraditional sectors, such as agriculture and fishing, often receive special treatment from policymakers because such sectors are perceived to be associated with traditional cultural public ...

* Fishing ban unilaterally imposed as eel population slumps * Eels in sharp decline also in Asia, cause unknown * Lifecycle still a mystery, captive breeding impossible By Reed Stevenson and Catherine ...

Cambridge, UK, 15th November 2019—TRAFFIC is warning of a surge in international glass eel smuggling cases as the new fishing season gets underway across Europe, and urges enforcement authorities to ...

Reporting from Ellsworth, Maine — It is just past midnight, rain clouds stalking a full moon, and Julie Keene is out on a muddy riverbank in thigh-high rubber boots and a camouflage jacket, a headlamp ...