Strategy of recreational anglers and estimated eel (<i>Anguilla anguilla</i>) catches in a large European catchment basin, the Loire (France)

Baisez, Aurore; Laffaille, Pascal

doi:10.1051/kmae/2009002

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“…The latter impact source was, however, more strongly emphasized by high-centrality anglers than low-centrality anglers, possibly reflecting their greater concern with habitat loss and destruction of migration pathways affecting the eel population. Interestingly, compared with other factors inducing eel mortality, anglers evaluated their own contribution to the contemporary eel decline as negligible, despite removing more eel annually than commercial fisheries in the study region (compare Dorow and Arlinghaus 2011) and elsewhere (Baisez and Laffaille 2008;ICES 2008). Furthermore, high-centrality anglers voiced the strongest protest against hypothetical constraints on eel fishing effort as a tool to help the eel population recover.…”

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The Relationship between Personal Commitment to Angling and the Opinions and Attitudes of German Anglers towards the Conservation and Management of the European Eel Anguilla anguilla

Dorow

Arlinghaus

2012

N American J Fish Manag

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In response to the dramatic decline of the European eel Anguilla anguilla population, the European Union member states developed eel conservation programs. To facilitate program development, a thorough understanding of eel angler perceptions about the degree of the current eel decline, their potential contribution, and their perceptions about the ways forward is important. In 2007, we sent a self‐administered mail questionnaire to 640 anglers living in northeastern Germany asking them about a range of eel conservation and management issues. Respondents were segmented according to their degree of eel angling commitment. We tested a range of hypotheses, including whether highly committed eel anglers would feel greater concern about the eel decline than less committed anglers. In contrast to expectations, all identified angler groups had experienced a similarly pronounced eel decline. While high‐centrality eel anglers were found to be somewhat more concerned with the decline, they exhibited less willingness to limit current eel angling effort than other anglers to help conserve eels. Highly committed eel anglers also rated the potential contribution of the recreational eel harvest as less important a contributor to the current state of the eel population than did less involved anglers. These findings can be explained by the greater resource dependency of highly committed anglers in light of the belief that recreational harvesting is not a significant issue for eel conservation. We conclude that the evaluation of fisheries conservation and management by differently committed anglers is affected by their perception of contributing to stock declines, the consumptive nature of the fishery, the dependency on the resource to meet experience preferences, and the degree to which potential regulations are perceived as threatening access to a fishery with a limited number of acceptable substitutes. Received May 2, 2011; accepted January 11, 2012

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The Relationship between Personal Commitment to Angling and the Opinions and Attitudes of German Anglers towards the Conservation and Management of the European Eel Anguilla anguilla

Dorow

Arlinghaus

2012

N American J Fish Manag

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“…Currently, eels do not form sustainable populations in most countries in Europe, and their yields have been steadily decreasing in Europe in the 21st century [1]. Since eels are highly valued in commercial fisheries, the price of juveniles has been increasing rapidly on the black market [2,3]. Eels are a culinary delicacy; they became the most traded animal species on the black market over the years 2010-2019 [4,5].…”

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“…These actions should stabilize wild eel populations, because they are based on examples of success and failures of other fish species conservation plans [9]. However, studies from European countries suggest that the goals have not been met yet [1][2][3][4].…”

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The Effect of Fishery Management on the Yield of the Critically Endangered European Eel Anguilla anguilla in Mesotrophic Rivers and Streams in Central Europe

Lyach

2022

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The European eel Anguilla anguilla is a critically endangered catadromous migratory fish species. To conserve eel populations, angling restrictions and stocking activities are often used. This paper aimed to analyze the effect of an increased minimum legal angling size, eel stocking, fishing effort, and important environmental and biological factors on eel yield. This study used data on eel stocking and yield collected by the Czech Fishing Union using angling logbooks. Data regarding 41 tons of harvested eels were collected on 176 fishing sites from 38,000 anglers over the years 2005–2018 in central Bohemia and Prague (the Czech Republic). Eel made up only 0.006% of the overall fish harvest by biomass. It was found that the increased minimum legal angling size led to decreased yield of eel and to a decreased percentage of eel in the overall fish harvested. It also led to larger harvested eels, while the number of fishing sites where anglers harvested eels stayed constant over time. The eel yield was strongly correlated to the angling effort but not to the eel stocking intensity or the environmental and biological factors. In conclusion, implementing the minimum legal angling size did achieve its goal, because it led to decreased eel yield.

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“…(Feunteun and Robinet 2014). However the species is still economically valued, commonly eaten, and the subject of an extensive recreational fishery (Baisez and Laffaille 2008;Dorow and Arlinghaus 2011). There, anglers who recognize the current decline of eels are willing, under certain circumstances, to commit to stricter regulations for eel conservation than currently exist (Dorow et al 2009).…”

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A socio-ecological risk assessment of the effects of recreational fishing on American Eel (Anguilla rostrata)

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In the present thesis, I used human dimensions and ecological research techniques to investigate whether recreational fishing poses a threat to American Eel (Anguilla rostrata), an Endangered species in the Canadian province of Ontario and globally (IUCN Red Listed as Endangered). Specifically, in Chapter 2 I explored angler perspectives and behaviour towards the American Eel through interviews. In Chapter 3, I evaluated the effects of simulated catch-and-release angling on American Eel, in terms of mortality and injury over a seven-day holding period. Almost all anglers (90%) who had captured eels in the Ottawa River, Ontario, had released them (Chapter 2), and eels were found to be relatively resilient to catch-and-release events (Chapter 3). Overall, my results suggest that recreational fishing does not pose a threat to American Eel, however this research is only a preliminary assessment and not all variables involved in a true recreational fishing scenario were examined.

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Strategy of recreational anglers and estimated eel (Anguilla anguilla) catches in a large European catchment basin, the Loire (France)

Cited by 4 publications

References 13 publications

The Relationship between Personal Commitment to Angling and the Opinions and Attitudes of German Anglers towards the Conservation and Management of the European Eel Anguilla anguilla

The Relationship between Personal Commitment to Angling and the Opinions and Attitudes of German Anglers towards the Conservation and Management of the European Eel Anguilla anguilla

The Effect of Fishery Management on the Yield of the Critically Endangered European Eel Anguilla anguilla in Mesotrophic Rivers and Streams in Central Europe

A socio-ecological risk assessment of the effects of recreational fishing on American Eel (Anguilla rostrata)

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