| 7. Biodiversity and Management |
| 7g. Eel ecology and its sustainable stock management |
| The signatories to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), discusses current status of several fish species. The European Union (EU) proposed the European eel for inclusion on the CITES list.. The EU proposal requests that the European eel be covered by CITES regulations. The stock of the European eel has declined abruptly since 1970's and this decline is believed to be as a result of over-fishing. Declines in European eels caused concern in Japan because large numbers of the European eel are exported to Japan via China. Similarly, in the Pacific Ocean, stock of the Japanese eel is also declining. In this sub-session, we discuss recent circumstances surrounding eel stocks around the world, ecological comparison of the Japanese and European eels, and future prospect of sustainable stock management of these important fishery species. |
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