Saving Europe’s endangered eels

The once-common European Eel is critically endangered. Over the past 40 years, the number of juvenile eels in European rivers has fallen by over 90%, largely due to more than million weirs and dams that block their migratory paths. In the UK, however, successful collaboration between conservation groups, fisheries and local enforcement is starting to turn the tide for eels. Razor’s Emma Keeling travels to Gloucester, England to meet the people on the frontline in the battle to save the species.
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[@tedandrews405]

Are the elvers still being harvested on a commercial venture basis? If so,surely restricting this would be the place to start.

[@sergemarlon]

They are. They're worth about 5,000 CAD a kilogram. That tiny haul of 30 in one dip, is valued at about $30.

[@delconashvilleline]

Very interesting video and well done. In the United States the American Eel faces many of the same obstacles. The biggest being our manmade dams that had devastating impacts on the population of our eels.

[@thebookman1036]

Glass eels are also caught in the hundreds of thousands in Spain, which are just a smaller version of the elvers

[@sharonbeard345]

Good video

[@AnneAndersonFoxiepaws]

Why catch the baby eels? Elvers...surely that's where the problem lies. Stop that and eels should have a better chance I would have thought. The government should stop all but the long standing historical licences, even those should be limited, those people are best placed to oversee what's actually happening and report poaching, which is bound to happen, because its impacting their livelihoods and that's the most likely way to stop elvers being overfished.

[@NOBLEFILMS1987]

They Need To Stop All Fishing Of Eels, Because They Only Mate Once, At The End Of There Lives, Once They Are About 100 Years Old, And Then, They Die.

[@The_Actually_Real_Elon_Musk]

@@NOBLEFILMS1987 100 years not true more like 17 to 22 depending on gender

[@lambchoptheplant]

Hi. Is the underwater footage owned by CGTN? If so, is it licensable?

[@razorscience]

please email [e-mail] with your request. Thanks

[@banhatlessducks]

Start with the health of the ocean otherwise they'll stop breeding

[@Heartsanime]

Overfishing. End of story.