Effects of commercial fishing and predation by cormorants on the Anguilla anguilla stock of a shallow eutrophic lake

• Published in: Journal of Fish Biology
• Main Authors: Carpentier, A., Marion, L., Paillisson, J.‐M., Acou, A., Feunteun, E.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2009
• Subjects: Anguilla anguilla
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1095-8649.2009.02286.x; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1111%2Fj.1095-8649.2009.02286.x; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1095-8649.2009.02286.x

Mortality of eels Anguilla anguilla in a large shallow lake in France due to predation by the cormorant Phalacrocorax carbo was found to be moderate when compared to fishery catches over a 9 year period. The results show that, contrary to previous extrapolations made at the pan‐European scale, P. carbo predation in shallow lakes is not invariably a major contributor to A. anguilla mortality, even in the presence of large colonies.