European Inland Fisheries Advisory Commission: International Council For the Exploration of the Sea. Report of the Thirteenth Session of the Joint Eifac/Ices Working Group On Eels. Copenhagen, Denmark, 28-31 August 2001

The EIFAC/ICES Working Group on Eels met to finish the work initiated at its 1999 meeting on defining biological reference points for European eel management use. The review of available information revealed that the European eel stock is in decline and that fisheries are outside safe biological limits.