Dossier
European eel
The stock of European eel is only at about 10 percent of what it was about fifty years ago. In this dossier you can find news, backgrounds and results of our research on eels and eel fishing in the Netherlands. Our research focuses on among others the propagation of glass eel, residues of dioxin in eel, monitoring eel by tracking with tags and the possibilities for eel protection.
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European eels spend the first two years of their life being swept 5,000 km by the Gulfstream, until they reach our coastal waters in the form of transparent ‘glass eels’ measuring seven centimetres. They are prevented from entering our waterways by locks, but glass eels can wash through openings in the lock gates by the current.
News about European eel
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Catching sea bass in the Staalhaven for research into migrating glass eels
- Researchers from Wageningen Marine Research annually monitor the migration of glass eel from the sea to Dutch inland waters. To gain knowledge about... -
First observation ever of a spontaneously matured female European eel
- For the first time in history, scientists have observed a spontaneously matured female European eel. She was caught in 2002 and has since lived in the... -
Does the Eel Management Plan help the Dutch eel?
- The eel population in the Netherlands is increasing slightly but is still in poor condition, with too high a mortality rate and too low a biomass. -
Fish migration: discofish in the North Sea Canal
- This spring, a large-scale study will take place into the migration of three-spined sticklebacks and glass eels (young eel) in the North Sea Canal... -
Eel fishing ban is justified
- In Resource, an article about PhD research of Myrthe van den Dungen about dioxin- and pcb-like substances in the systems of people who eat a lot of...
Publications on European eel
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Recombinant Gonadotropins to Induce Oocyte Development In Vitro and In Vivo in the European Eel Anguilla anguilla
Fishes (2023), Volume: 8, Issue: 3 - ISSN 2410-3888 -
The induction of oocyte maturation and ovulation in European eel (Anguilla anguilla): in vitro and in vivo comparison of progesterone with 17α,20β-dihydroxy-4-pregnen-3-one
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Five years of optimizing the assisted reproduction protocol for European eel: What worked and what didn’t?
In: Proceedings of 12th World Congress on Genetics Applied to Livestock Production (WCGALP). - Wageningen : Wageningen Academic Publishers - ISBN 9789086869404 - p. 2028 - 2030. -
Data report: Glass eel and yellow eel migration in the Rhine Meuse estuary : A data report of a mark recapture study spring 2022
IJmuiden : Wageningen Marine Research (Wageningen Marine Research report C060/22) - p. -
Steroid implants for the induction of vitellogenesis in feminized European silver eels (Anguilla anguilla L.)
Frontiers in Genetics Livestock Genomics 13 (2022). - ISSN 1664-8021 -
Early and abrupt salinity reduction impacts European eel larval culture
Fish Physiology and Biochemistry 48 (2022)2. - ISSN 0920-1742 - p. 355 - 366. -
Improving the vitality of European eel larvae
In: WIAS Annual Conference 2022. - : Wageningen University & Research - p. 37 - 37. -
Modelling the transfer and accumulation of microplastics in a riverine freshwater food web
Environmental Advances 8 (2022). - ISSN 2666-7657 -
Does tagging transparent fish increase predation risk? A laboratory study with glass eel (Anguilla anguilla) and sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax)
Journal of Fish Biology 100 (2022)1. - ISSN 0022-1112 - p. 184 - 191. -
First European eel larvae produced using recombinant FSH and LH - in vivo and in vitro effects on oocyte maturation and reproductive success