EELS: BIOLOGY, MONITORING, MANAGEMENT, CULTURE AND EXPLOITATION: Proceedings of the First International Eel Science Symposium. Edited by Andy Don and Paul Coulson.

2019 1st edition. 4to (192 x 252mm). Ppxvi,448. Colour and b/w photographs, colour and b/w charts and graphs, location maps, bibliography. Pictorial laminated boards, issued without a dust-wrapper.

"The freshwater eels, the Anguillids, have increasingly become the focus of attention..." Eels "can be seen as a bellwether for issues affecting aquatic ecosystems - their steep decline and the management initiatives to try and reverse this trend, touch on subjects as diverse as disconnected waterways, loss of habitat, novel parasites, pollution, over-fishing and climate change." Chapters include: European Eel, a Local History: Eel memories from the Somerset Levels; The history of smoked eel in Amsterdam and the rest of the world. Species and Regions: Distribution and conservation status of tropical eels; Distribution and conservation status of eels in East Africa and the Western Indian Ocean; The management, fishery and stock status of American eel along the Atlantic coast. Research and Management: Eels on the move; Growth, maturation, sex-ratio, length and age of [the] European eel in the Netherlands; Does a bigger glass eel mean better recruitment?; Insight into Japanese eel divergence into sea estuaries and rivers; Behavioural patterns of migrating silver eel at a hydropower station; The chemical marking of eels; Estimation of downstream migrating Irish silver-phase eels; Impacts on European eels at a Norwegian hydropower site; New Zealand tuna (freshwater eels); Understanding eel behaviour to improve protection and passage at pumping stations; Understanding eel behaviour to improve their protection and passage at river structures. Eel Health: Major eel diseases in Europe, the past 30 years; Eel toxicology; Parasite assemblages of European eels in Irish freshwater habitats; Silver service, a standard protocol for eel health examinations. Aquaculture: Captive breeding of the European eel, Italian review; European eel, an integrated approach to establish eel hatchery technology in Denmark. Exploitation: Global exploitation of freshwater eels, fisheries, stock status and illegal trade. Appendices include: Programme from the 1st International Eel Science Symposium; Pictures from the Symposium; Fisheries Management and Ecology special issue.