Report of the 2008 session of the Joint EIFAC/ICES Working Group on Eels

ICES Advisory Committee on Fisheries Management
ICES CM 2008/ACOME:15
Ref. ACOM

Report of the 2008 session
of the Joint EIFAC/ICES
Working Group on Eels

Leuven, Belgium, 3–9 September 2008

European Inland Fisheries
Advisory Commission
EIFAC Occasional Paper No. 43

INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL FOR THE EXPLORATION OF THE SEA (ICES)
FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS (FAO)
Rome, 2009


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Contents

Part 1   [918Kb]

    Abstract
    Executive summary
    Report summary
    Full focus
    Recommendations
    Glossary
    Contents

    1 Introduction
    2 Trends in recruitment, stocking, yield and aquaculture

Part 2   [1Mb]

    3 International stock assessment and data needs
    4 Assessing stocks and management actions
    5 Stocking and aquaculture
    6 Eel quality
    7 Oceans, climate and recruitment
    8 Research needs
    9 References

Part 3   [430Kb]

    Annex 1 List of participants
    Annex 2 Agenda
    Annex 3 Recruitment, landings and stocking dataseries
    Annex 4 The use of genetics in the management of European eel
    Annex 5 Country overview of contaminant and parasite/pathogens in eel
    Annex 6 Draft WGEEL terms of reference 2009
    Annex 7 Technical minutes Eel Review Group 2008


Part 4   [1,2Mb]

    Annex 8 – Country Reports: Eel stock and fisheries reported by country – 2008
    Report on the eel stock and fishery in Finland 2007
    Report on the eel stock and fishery in Ireland 2007/2008
    Report on the eel stock and fishery in Spain 2008
    Report on the eel stock and f isheries in Italy

Part 5   [1,3Mb]

    Report on the eel stock and fishery in Norway 2008
    Report on the eel stock and f ishery in Estonia
    Report on the American eel (Anguilla rostrata) stock and fisheries in Canada 2008
    Report on eel stock and fisheries- Latvia 2008

Part 6   [711Kb]

    Report on the eel stock and fishery in France 2007

Part 7  [731Kb]

    Report on the eel stock and fishery in Belgium 2007

Part 8   [835Kb]

    Report on the eel stock and fishery in Germany 2007
    Report on the eel stock and fishery in Poland 2008
    Report on the eel stock and fishery in Denmark 2008

Part 9   [722Kb]

    Report on the eel stock and fishery in the Netherlands 2008

Part 10   [545Kb]

    Report on the eel stock and fishery in UK 2008

Part 11   [877Kb]

    Report on the eel stock and fishery in UK 2008 [cont'd]

Part 12   [819Kb]

    Report on the eel stock and fishery in Portugal 2008
    Report on the eel stock and fishery in Sweden 2007

Part 13   [401Kb]

    Report on the eel stock and fishery in Sweden 2007 [cont'd]

Part 14   [1Mb]

    Report on the eel stock and fishery in Sweden 2007 [cont'd]
    Report on the eel stock and fishery in Lithuania 2007



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