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When will the eel recover? A full life-cycle model
Åström, M.; Dekker, W. (2007). When will the eel recover? A full life-cycle model. ICES J. Mar. Sci./J. Cons. int. Explor. Mer 67(7): 1491-1498. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fsm122
In: ICES Journal of Marine Science. Academic Press: London. ISSN 1054-3139; e-ISSN 1095-9289, more
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Keywords
    Characteristics > Sustainability
    Cycles > Life cycle
    Management > Resource management > Fishery management
    Population characteristics > Biomass
    Population functions > Mortality
    Population functions > Recruitment
    Spawning
    Stock assessment
    Sustainability
    Sustainability
    Anguilla anguilla (Linnaeus, 1758) [WoRMS]
    Marine/Coastal
Author keywords
    anguilla; eel; population model; recovery period; stock-recruitmentrelationship

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  • Åström, M.
  • Dekker, W.

Abstract
    The European eel population has declined over the past decades in most of its distribution area, and the stock is outside safe biological limits. The EU has taken up the challenge to design a management system that ensures the escapement of 40% of spawning-stock biomass, relative to unexploited, unpolluted circumstances in unobstructed rivers. This ultimately aims to restore the spawning stock to a level at which glass eel production is not impaired, i.e. to restore to full historical glass eel recruitment. To explore the trajectory from the current depleted state to full recruitment recovery, we developed a simple model of stock dynamics, based on a simplified stock-recruitment relationship and the conventional dynamic pool assumptions. Recruitment trajectories under different future fishery regimes are explored, for the medium (one generation time) and long time-span (until full recruitment recovery). Reducing fisheries to zero, recovery is expected within ~80 years, whereas under an ultimately sustainable fishing regime of just 10% of the current rate of fishing mortality, recovery may take more than 200 years. Moreover, management regimes, apparently leading to slight recovery of the stock in the coming 5-15 years, might still be unsustainable in the long run.

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