The Sustainable Eel Group

Unscreened hydros and water pumps are a massive killer of eels

The first sustainable eel product with kite mark

The great eel house at the once vast wetlands of Castiglione Della Pescaia, Tuscany Italy. Lost habitat is a major cause of the eel’s decline.

The West Facing Rivers of Europe are barricaded by 10,000’s of flood defence barriers. These concrete walls and steel doors prevent the eels entering their nursery habitats which are essential for the transition from glass eel to pigmented juvenile.

Eels are largely nocturnal and like to hide making population measurement enormously difficult

Typical eel pass - Green bristles in a wet tray so enabling elver migration over the concrete and steel barriers

Silver Eel Research Venice November 2011

There is hope - Willem Dekker addressing the SEG 5th Anniversary conference in London. 2015