Eel Group Hopes to Develop U.S. Eel Aquaculture As Stocks Improve
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [SeafoodNews] - April 1 2015 -
This week marked the opening of the 2015 glass eel fishing season as well as a milestone of more than ten years of improvements to the American eel stock and its habitat.
A decade of unprecedented worldwide attention and action has allowed glass eel, the juvenile form of American eel, to repopulate previously blocked habitats and maintain a decades-long stable level of recruitment.
Given the success of the species and improvement in its management, the American Eel Sustainability Association (AESA) urges the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) to acknowledge the American eel is healthy and not endangered.
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