Publication Abstract

Is there more to eels than SLIME? An introduction to papers presented at the ICES Theme Session in Septemebr 2006

Dekker W, Pawson M*, Wickstram H

Is there more to eels than SLIME? Undoubtedly yes, said the presenters of 26 papers and 11 posters during Theme Session J of the Annual Science Conference of ICES in Maastricht. The serious condition of the European eel (Anguilla anguilla) stock has now been universally accepted, and both ICES and the European Commission have recently held a number of meetings and commissioned studies to develop eel recovery plans and associated data collection. These initiatives have generated new information on the status and management needs of eel stocks, and new and important research findings have been emerging in eel genetics, life-history energetics, parasites and environmental contamination.