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

For millions of years, eels have been migrating from the Atlantic ocean into European rivers. Today the eel population has fallen to a historic low. But scientists, industry, NGOs and regulators are working together to restore stocks. #Ocean