EU Eel Conservation Measures

Check out the document link on the NFA's Southern Region page for an update on EU eel conservation measures. Nice to see cormorants are recognised as a problem, but on the minus side, so is recreation angling! Check here:

NFA Conservation Measures

Thanks for the help Mods, much appreciated.

Just read it Terry.....we do not need eel passes...i'm sure the guys who haven't seen it won't believe me but elvers most definatly can leave the river and get past wiers.....and the wiers have been with us for a long time now.

Recreational angling is not a problem either....it's purely down to mass harvesting of the eel at varying stages of their lives.

It's not really rocket science is it?

With respect Terry perhaps you?d like to tell us what the NFA has done down the years to protect eels?

It appears on the Southern site as NFA conservation measures but the true fact is, it is the UK eel groups through the SAA and the European Anglers Alliance that has got the EU to this point, not the NFA.
What a bloody check to now jump on this bandwagon!