Researchers conducting tagging experiments with eels from the Mediterranean in French waters concluded that the species can find their way through the Strait of Gibraltar to the Atlantic and potentially reach the Sargasso Sea to spawn along with eels from the rest of Europe.
Senior Researcher Kim Aarestrup, from DTU Aqua, who is part of the research team behind the article published in the scientific journal Nature's Scientific Reports, pointed out: "Our results provide evidence that Mediterranean countries also have an important role to play in helping to save the European eel.”
“There has previously been speculation about whether eels in the Mediterranean could even find their way out into the Atlantic; thus the question was whether the Mediterranean eel was important for maintaining the eel population, or whether we might as well just eat them al...
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The Norwegian Pelagic Fishing Course in Week 18 Norway
Still low activity in the sandpiper fishery and modest catches of other species, despite some larger catches of coal mullet.
Blue whiting:
17,645 tonnes registered from 12 different boats. Large p...
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