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Download fileEuropean eel (Anguilla anguilla) throughout its natural range
Abundance of the European eel stock (all stages glass eel, yellow eel and silver eel) is at a historical minimum and
continues to decline. Recruitment is also at a historical low level and continues to decline. All glass eel recruitment
series show clear and marked reductions since the early 1980s. For the different areas (Baltic, continental North Sea,
continental Atlantic, British Isles, and Mediterranean), current recruitment is between 1 and 9% of that observed in the
1970s.
Recruitment in 2008 and 2009 has been especially low.
History
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- ACOM
Period covered by advice
2010Series
ICES Advice: Recurrent advicePrevious edition of
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- Fisheries and aquaculture
- Arctic Ocean (ICES Ecoregion)
- Azores (ICES Ecoregion)
- Baltic Sea (ICES Ecoregion)
- Bay of Biscay and the Iberian Coast (ICES Ecoregion)
- Barents Sea (ICES Ecoregion)
- Celtic Seas (ICES Ecoregion)
- Faroes (ICES Ecoregion)
- Greater North Sea (ICES Ecoregion)
- Greenland Sea (ICES Ecoregion)
- Icelandic Waters (ICES Ecoregion)
- Norwegian Sea (ICES Ecoregion)
- Oceanic Northeast Atlantic (ICES Ecoregion)
- All ICES Ecoregions