Mitigating the effects of barriers to freshwater fish migrations: the Australian experience

JH Harris, RT Kingsford, W Peirson… - Marine and …, 2016 - CSIRO Publishing
Declining fish communities characterise global freshwater environments, including those in
Australia. Lost river connectivity through water resource development is a key cause of …

An enigma: how can freshwater eels (Anguilla spp.) be such a successful genus yet be universally threatened?

DJ Jellyman - Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries, 2022 - Springer
Freshwater eels are of tropical marine origin and have spread worldwide. Of the 19
recognised species or subspecies, all 6 temperate species are listed within IUCN …

Important questions to progress science and sustainable management of anguillid eels

D Righton, A Piper, K Aarestrup, E Amilhat… - Fish and …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Anguillid eels are found globally in fresh, transitional and saline waters and have played an
important role in human life for centuries. The population status of several species is now of …

All roads lead to home: panmixia of European eel in the Sargasso Sea

TD Als, MM Hansen, GE Maes… - Molecular …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
European eels (Anguilla anguilla) spawn in the remote Sargasso Sea in partial sympatry
with American eels (Anguilla rostrata), and juveniles are transported more than 5000 km …

Joint EIFAAC/ICES/GFCM working group on eels (WGEEL)

E Amilhat, T Basic, L Beaulaton, C Belpaire, P Bernotas… - 2019 - orbit.dtu.dk
The WGEEL has this year adjusted the manner in which it reports data in time-series. First,
readers should note that some data reported to the WGEEL in the most recent year are …

Sex differentiation and sex determination in eels: consequences for management

B Geffroy, A Bardonnet - Fish and Fisheries, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The aim of this review is to present an overview of the sex differentiation and sex
determination processes in eels in relation to the urgent need to provide scientific …

Did a “perfect storm” of oceanic changes and continental anthropogenic impacts cause northern hemisphere anguillid recruitment reductions?

MJ Miller, E Feunteun… - ICES Journal of Marine …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
The three northern hemisphere anguillid eel species experienced recruitment declines at
similar times beginning in the 1970s and 1980s, but the exact causes of the declines have …

Species stereotypes as a result of unconscious research biases compromise conservation efficacy

JA Britnell, RN Lewis, F Elsner-Gearing, N Harvey… - Biological …, 2021 - Elsevier
Taxonomic and geographic biases in ecological research are widely recognised. In addition,
information bias within a species can impact our understanding of their biology. This can …

Management of the eel is slipping through our hands! Distribute control and orchestrate national protection

W Dekker - ICES Journal of Marine Science, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Following a multi-decadal decline of the European eel stock all across the continent, the EU
adopted a protection and recovery plan in 2007, known as the Eel Regulation …

Response of upstream migrating juvenile European eel (Anguilla anguilla) to electric fields: Application of the marginal gains concept to fish screening

M Miller, SM Sharkh, PS Kemp - Plos one, 2022 - journals.plos.org
The decline in European eel (Anguilla anguilla) recruitment over the past half-century is
partly due to river infrastructure that delays or blocks upstream migration to rearing habitat …