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Carbon (δ ¹³ C) and nitrogen (δ ¹⁵ N) stable isotope analysis is a powerful tool to investigate diverse questions in fish ecology, such as their trophic position or migration strategies. These questions appear particularly important to protect endangered European eel. However, elevated lipid content in eel muscle can bias δ ¹³ C values, a...
An otolith shape and morphometric analysis was performed on European eel (Anguilla anguilla) subpopulations from five rivers and three coastal lagoons of Sardinia (central-western Mediterranean) to assess the role of different habitats on otolith development. Sagittal otolith shape was described by 11 harmonics from elliptic Fourier descriptors. Co...
Migration is an important yet dangerous phase in the life of numerous animals, including the European eel (Anguilla anguilla), which migrates thousands of kilometers between its growing habitats and spawning area. The behaviors and mechanisms involved in the migration of silver eels to their spawning area have been extensively documented in rivers,...
The European eel, Anguilla anguilla, is an emblematic facultative catadromous species that spawns in the Sargasso Sea and grow in continental waters of Europe and North Africa. In most of its growing habitats its population has dropped since 1980. Although Mediterranean lagoons represent particularly important habitats for eel, knowledge of eel eco...
Mediterranean lagoons are particularly important ecosystems for the European eel (Anguilla anguilla) population. Yet, the knowledge of eel ecology in lagoons is not as developed as it is in rivers and estuaries. Particularly, fisheries independent data describing silver eel escapement from the lagoons at a fine temporal scale are scarce. This lack...
The Joint EIFAAC/ICES/GFCM Working group on eels (WGEEL) met by correspondence and video conference from September 7 – 10 September and 27 September – 4 October in 2021 to assess the state of the European eel and its fisheries, investigate the effects of contaminants on the reproductive capacity of the eel stock, discuss the findings of WKFEA, furt...
Nineteen female silver European eels (Anguilla anguilla L.) were tagged with satellite tags and released in the Gulf of Lion in the Mediterranean during the migration seasons 2013 and 2015. Sixteen tags transmitted data: five in the Atlantic Ocean, and eleven in the Mediterranean. Of those, 50% of migrating eels were consumed by marine mammals in e...
European eel, Anguilla anguilla, is an emblematic diadromous species which population has dropped since 1980. Although Mediterranean lagoons represent productive brackish ecosystems, particularly important for eel, knowledge of eel ecology in Mediterranean lagoons is not as developed as it is in rivers. Particularly, data on glass eels’ recruitment...
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 significant concern. The threats to populations include direct
exploitation at different life stages, blockages to migratory routes by dams and other
structures,...
The SUDOANG project aims at providing common tools to managers to support
eel conservation in the SUDOE area (Spain, France and Portugal). VISUANG is the
SUDOANG Interactive Web Application that will host all these tools. The application
consists of an eel distribution atlas (GT1), assessments of mortalities caused by turbines
and an atlas showing...
Transitional ecosystems and, particularly, Mediterranean lagoons represent important habitats for the European eel (Anguilla anguilla) population. In these habitats many anthropogenic pressures can disturb eel movements and, in turn, negatively affect the population. Despite the importance of movements during the non-migrant growing stage in eels,...
The European eel Anguilla anguilla is listed as critically endangered by the IUCN. Among many threats, the introduced parasitic nematode Anguillicola crassus is suspected to alter the eels' swim bladder and jeopardize their reproductive oceanic migration. To date, gaining knowledge about the distribution and prevalence of A. crassus requires indivi...
Despite the increasing use of acoustic cameras in fish ecology and fisheries studies, the quantification of biases associated with this method have received little attention. In this note, we used data collected from an ARIS acoustic camera, positioned in a channel linking a lagoon to the sea, to quantify differences in European eel (Anguilla angui...
The Joint EIFAAC/ICES/GFCM Working group on eels (WGEEL) met by correspondence and video conference from September 21–28 in 2020 to assess the state of the European eel, investigate the effects of habitat loss on the eel stock and its management, review and update the Stock Annex, prepare the 2021 Data Call and report on any updates to the scientif...
The European eel is critically endangered. Although the quality of silver eels is essential for their reproduction, little is known about the effects of multiple contaminants on the spawning migration and the European eel management plan does not take this into account. To address this knowledge gap, we sampled 482 silver eels from 12 catchments ac...
The spawning migration of the European eel (Anguilla anguilla L.) to the Sargasso Sea is one of the greatest animal migrations. However, the duration and route of the migration remain uncertain. Using fishery data from 20 rivers across Europe, we show that most eels begin their oceanic migration between August and December. We used electronic taggi...
Environmental sex determination (ESD) has been detected in a range of vertebrate reptile and fish species. Eels are characterized by an ESD that occurs relatively late, since sex cannot be histologically determined before individuals reach 28 cm. Because several eel species are at risk of extinction, assessing sex at the earliest stage is a crucial...
Scientific Reports 6 : Article number: 21817; 10.1038/srep21817 published online: 24 February 2016 ; updated: 20 May 2016 . In Figure 2 of this Article, the upper left graph is a duplication of the upper right graph.
The migration route and the spawning site of the European eel Anguilla anguilla are still uncertain. It has been suggested that the Mediterranean eel stock does not contribute to spawning because there is no evidence of eels leaving the Mediterranean Sea. To test this hypothesis, we equipped eight female silver eels from the south of France with po...
During EELIAD project, we examined effects of contamination by metals, POPs (including PCB) and introduced parasites on life history traits of 450 silver eels sampled across Europe. Our results showed a positive relationship between age and latitude, while size & weight at silvering were correlated to catchment characteristics. Growth rate was link...
Helminth parasites were studied in 149 silver eels from five sites in northern Europe. In total, 88% were infected by 12 species including Monogena, Cestoda, Nematoda, and Acanthocephala. Anguillicoloides crassus was most common (56%), then Acanthocephalus clavula (30%) and Pseudodactylogyrus spp. (17%). The body condition (BC) was negatively influ...
The degradation in the quality of silver eel and their health could have been a major factor in the collapse of the European eel (Anguilla anguilla) population. However, the health status of the spawners has been poorly studied until now. This study evaluated the quality of migrant male silver eels from four Mediterranean habitats in France present...
Environmental characteristics in water and sediments of two contrasted coastal Mediterranean lagoons, Bages-Sigean and Canet-St Nazaire, were measured over a three season survey. The urban pollution (treatment plant discharges) is very important in Canet-St Nazaire lagoon reflecting untreated sewages, while in Bages-Sigean, the northern part appear...
Because parasitism is among the reasons invoked to explain the collapse of Anguilla anguilla, we evaluated the parasitic constraint on body condition (BC) of migrant silver eels as a proxy of fitness with inter-site comparisons. Metazoan parasites were studied in 149 silver eels from five sites (northern Europe). In total, 89% were infected by 13 s...
The European eel (Anguilla anguilla), a catadromous species, breeds in the sea and migrates to estuarine, lagoon or freshwater habitats for growth and development. Yellow eels, exposed to low or fluctuating salinities, are also exposed to multiple other stressors as pollution, over-fishing and parasitism, which contribute to the dramatic decrease o...
Eel virus European X (EVEX) was first isolated from diseased European eel Anguilla anguilla in Japan at the end of seventies. The virus was tentatively classified into the Rhabdoviridae family on the basis of morphology and serological cross reactivity. This family of viruses is organized into six genera and currently comprises approximately 200 me...
Southeast Asian rice farmers often manage aquatic habitats and resources on their land to increase harvest of aquatic animals (Amilhat, E., Lorenzen, K., Morales, E.J., Yakupitiyage, A., Little, D.C., 2009. Fisheries production in Southeast Asian farmer-managed aquatic systems (FMAS). I. Characterisation of systems. Aquaculture 296, 219–226). We ch...
Southeast Asian rice farmers often manage aquatic habitats and resources on their land to increase production of aquatic animals. We introduce the concept of ‘farmer-managed aquatic systems’ (FMAS) to capture the diversity of these resource systems at the interface of aquaculture and capture fisheries and characterize FMAS in contrasting agro-ecosy...
Much concern has been raised about the decline in the European eel (Anguilla anguilla) population. European management plans for the recovery of the stock are now in preparation, the main objective being to increase the escapement of the potential spawners (silver eels) in each basin to allow 40% of the pristine biomass to escape. However, there ar...
Habitat use, migration, mortality and growth of the chevron snakehead Channa striata in a rainfed rice farming landscape of north-east Thailand were studied through a tagging experiment. A total of 751 fish were captured, tagged and released during three distinct events in the late dry season, and in the beginning and at the end of the wet season....