SEG – Five points for Council, December 2022

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#EelDeal2030

• Eel Stock has stabilised for over a decade following a steep 30 years decline and the Eel Regulation as anticipated is slowly working. 

• Continue to give primacy to the Eel Regulation with its enabling of the subsidiarity principle and long term thinking.

• Improve the feedback mechanism between EU-COM and MS so that all negative mortality impacts are addressed.

• Recovery needs Habitat Restoration so the link to the Green Deal and WFD are an essential part of the holistic strategy.

• Countering Eel Trafficking remains a priority and the SEG Standard with its full traceability requirement is also key.

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Read the full SEG positition paper here.

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Europe tries to save the eel population as numbers reach historic low

At the beginning of winter, Atlantic waves bring a new generation of eels from their spawning grounds in the Sargasso Sea to the coast of the Bay of Biscay. Over a billion glass eels arrive there every year. Andrew Kerr is the chairman of the Sustainable Eel Group (SEG) , which works across Europe to help preserve this fascinating species.