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ICES Journal of Marine Science: Journal du Conseil Advance Access originally published online on August 22, 2007
ICES Journal of Marine Science: Journal du Conseil 2007 64(7):1366-1367; doi:10.1093/icesjms/fsm129
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Crown Copyright © 2007. Published by Oxford Journals on behalf of the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea. All rights reserved

Is there more to eels than slime? An introduction to papers presented at the ICES Theme Session in September 2006

Willem Dekker1, Mike Pawson2, and Håkan Wickström3

1 Wageningen– IMARES, PO Box 68, 1970 AB IJmuiden, The Netherlands
2 Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (Cefas), Pakefield Road, Lowestoft, Suffolk NR33 0HT, UK
3 Swedish Board of Fisheries, Institute of Freshwater Research, SE-178 93 Drottningholm, Sweden

Correspondence to M. Pawson: tel: +44 1502 524436; fax: +44 1502 526351; e-mail: mike.pawson@cefas.co.uk

Received 13 July 2007; accepted 24 July 2007; advance access publication 22 August 2007.

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The following 15 papers in this issue of the ICES Journal of Marine Science are based on presentations given at a Theme Session—"Is there more to Eels than Slime?"—at the ICES Annual Science Conference held in Maastricht, the Netherlands, during September 2006. International involvement in research on the European eel (Anguilla anguilla) started in 1968, when a draft synopsis of eel biology, fisheries, and aquaculture was prepared at the European Inland Fisheries Advisory Commission (EIFAC) session in Rome. By 1975, an ICES Eel Working Group had been set up (WGEEL), and it met in Copenhagen to document information on eel populations and fisheries and, for the first time, to note declining trends in catches. These were the subjects of a joint EIFAC/ICES symposium in Helsinki in 1976, where mitigation by restocking was first proposed, . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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