This World Fish Migration Day, the importance of maintaining healthy and connected rivers and streams for species that occupy both fresh and marine waters is being highlighted across the globe. Together with scientifically-backed fisheries management schemes, habitat maintenance plays a huge role in the conservation and sustainable use of migrating species, such as the European eel. Spawning in the Sargasso Sea in the middle of the North Western Atlantic Ocean, larval European eels migrate into the estuaries, rivers, and lakes of Europe and North Africa, living most of their lives in fresh water…
The Fish Site, 20/05/16. Read the full article ‘World Fish Migration Day: Protecting the European Eel‘.