EUROPEAN INLAND FISHERIES ADVISORY COMMISSION INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL FOR THE EXPLORATION OF THE SEA
| EIFAC Occasional Paper No. 30 | EIFAC/OP30 |
| EUROPEAN INLAND FISHERIES ADVISORY COMMISSION INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL FOR THE EXPLORATION OF THE SEA |
REPORT OF THE 1994 SESSION OF THE EIFAC/ICES WORKING GROUP ON EEL
Oviedo, Spain, 26 September – 1 October 1994
PREPARATION OF THIS REPORT
This report summarizes the discussion, conclusions and recommendations of the 1994 Session of the EIFAC/ICES Working Group on Eel held in Oviedo, Spain, 26 September to 1 October 1994.
| European Inland Fisheries Advisory Commission.
Report of the 1994 session of the EIFAC/ICES Working Party on Eel. Oviedo, Spain,
26 September–1 October 1994. EIFAC Occasional Paper. No.30. Rome, FAO. 1994. 18p. |
| ABSTRACT |
| The 1994 Session of the re-appointed EIFAC/ICES Working Group on Eel took place from 26 September to 1 October 1994 in Oviedo, Spain in conjunction with the VIII Congress of Societas Europaea Ichthyologorum. The Session was attended by 40 participants, of which 34 were from EIFAC or ICES member countries, three from Sri Lanka, and one each from Hong Kong, New Zealand and Republic of China. Papers and posters were contributed under the following headings (numbers in parentheses): Larval and elver studies (13); Continental stages: population and fisheries (9); Continental stages: growth and feeding (4); Continental stages: migration (3); Physiology, genetics and culture (10); Parasites and contamination (4). The cooperative programme on growth had received 100 case studies from 10 countries which will be incorporated in a database. Ten countries had provided preserved specimens for a glass eel bank being maintained in Ireland. |
| The Working Group has noted the persistence of low catches of elvers over a wide area of the European continent and, incidentally, reports of poor recruitment of other species of Anguilla in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It has put forward recommendations that urgent attention, in the form of enhanced research effort, be given to the possible effects of this on stocks and fisheries. |
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EUROPEAN INLAND FISHERIES ADVISORY COMMISSION
Rome, 1994.
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II. Report by the Chairman on inter-sessional matters
IV. Continental stages: population and fisheries
V. Continental stages: growth and feeding
VI. Continental stages: migration
VII. Physiology, genetics and culture
VIII. Parasites and contamination
XIV. Date and place of next meeting
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