The European Commission argued the case before MEPs in Brussels on Monday 25 September for its recent proposal seeking to ban fishing for silver eel in the Baltic Sea (see EUROPE 11850).
The Commission will also begin work, which will take several years, to revise the 2007 regulation on measures to rebuild eel stocks in the EU. A combination of a number of initiatives is required said the Commission representative.
She said that lever recruitment had declined by 90% since the 1960-1980...