The European Commission proposed on Tuesday 29 August to ban fishing for marine eel in the Baltic Sea next year. The ban would apply to both commercial and recreational fishing.
These precautionary measures form part of the Commission’s proposals on fishing opportunities in the Baltic in 20-18 (see other articles).
The European eel stock has been at a historically low level since the late 1990s. It is listed in Appendix II of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species...