In 2007 the EU reacted to the collapsing eel population crisis with a Regulation requiring all countries to develop and implement their eel management plans. Fourteen years later we find that the Eel Regulation is slowly working – SEG now calls for all countries to improve their implementation.
Tomorrow evening, Tuesday 29th November, Euronews will release Denis Lotiers documentary investigation.
Follow the story below with taster highlights:
EU Maritime & Fish on Twitter: “From the Sargasso Sea into the European rivers: the extraordinary journey of the European eel.📺 Airing tomorrow on Ocean, 20:50 on @euronews.#EUBiodiversity pic.twitter.com/q0CULJHfFd / Twitter”
From the Sargasso Sea into the European rivers: the extraordinary journey of the European eel.📺 Airing tomorrow on Ocean, 20:50 on @euronews.#EUBiodiversity pic.twitter.com/q0CULJHfFd
Denis Loctier on Twitter: “Baby #eels cross the ocean and arrive to Europe as glass eels – small, transparent and fragile. That’s when some of them get caught. Why fish something so tiny? @SEGandrewK explains how that’s less harmful than catching mature eels – as long as we want to keep eating #eel at all. pic.twitter.com/Lap1xhlyFE / Twitter”
Baby #eels cross the ocean and arrive to Europe as glass eels – small, transparent and fragile. That’s when some of them get caught. Why fish something so tiny? @SEGandrewK explains how that’s less harmful than catching mature eels – as long as we want to keep eating #eel at all.
Denis Loctier on Twitter: “Some baby eels are captured legally and farm-raised for Europe’s consumers. But ≈2-3 times more are poached and smuggled abroad. This “white gold” generates 10,000% criminal profits in 1-2 years – one of the biggest, most lucrative illegal trades of protected species worldwide! pic.twitter.com/XxlwGeKHRk / Twitter”
Some baby eels are captured legally and farm-raised for Europe’s consumers. But ≈2-3 times more are poached and smuggled abroad. This “white gold” generates 10,000% criminal profits in 1-2 years – one of the biggest, most lucrative illegal trades of protected species worldwide! pic.twitter.com/XxlwGeKHRk
Denis Loctier on Twitter: “The EU acted to stop eel decline with the Eel regulation – long-term measures for the member states to implement while preserving limited fishing. That approach worked. But this November, @ICES_ASC advised “zero catches” in 2022 – total eel fishing ban. @SEGandrewK doesn’t agree. pic.twitter.com/oXfJGUGCLk / Twitter”
The EU acted to stop eel decline with the Eel regulation – long-term measures for the member states to implement while preserving limited fishing. That approach worked. But this November, @ICES_ASC advised “zero catches” in 2022 – total eel fishing ban. @SEGandrewK doesn’t agree. pic.twitter.com/oXfJGUGCLk
Denis Loctier on Twitter: “Hydropower plants are a deadly obstacle to many adult eels on their way back to sea. For years, Dutch fishermen have been catching migrating eels and carrying them over the dykes to release on the other side. Project leader Magnus van der Meer told me eel numbers are now growing. pic.twitter.com/T1LO7TT8K9 / Twitter”
Hydropower plants are a deadly obstacle to many adult eels on their way back to sea. For years, Dutch fishermen have been catching migrating eels and carrying them over the dykes to release on the other side. Project leader Magnus van der Meer told me eel numbers are now growing.
Denis Loctier on Twitter: “In 1984 @WillemXDekker discovered that eel decline in Europe spanned wider and longer than anyone had imagined. 30 years later, there’s still much to understand about all possible causes – but as Dr. Dekker told me in Spakenburg, this doesn’t mean we can’t act to protect eel now. pic.twitter.com/lSejmKLlR2 / Twitter”
In 1984 @WillemXDekker discovered that eel decline in Europe spanned wider and longer than anyone had imagined. 30 years later, there’s still much to understand about all possible causes – but as Dr. Dekker told me in Spakenburg, this doesn’t mean we can’t act to protect eel now. pic.twitter.com/lSejmKLlR2
Denis Loctier on Twitter: “”When I started alarming that we really have to do something, nobody was listening”: @WillemXDekker says eel protection remained uncoordinated – and its decline continued – until EU’s Eel regulation required every member state to protect its eel stock in the ways they choose. pic.twitter.com/rhlrcM0AEg / Twitter”
“When I started alarming that we really have to do something, nobody was listening”: @WillemXDekker says eel protection remained uncoordinated – and its decline continued – until EU’s Eel regulation required every member state to protect its eel stock in the ways they choose. pic.twitter.com/rhlrcM0AEg