Original language – Spanish NON DETRIMENT FINDINGS FOR THE EUROPEAN EEL- THE SWEDISH CASE

• Main Authors: Case Study, Håkan Wickström
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Norway; White Sea; Anguilla anguilla; European eel; Iceland; Northern Norway
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.538.8098; http://www.conabio.gob.mx/institucion/cooperacion_internacional/TallerNDF/Links-Documentos/WG-CS/WG8-Fishes/WG8-CS2 Anguilla/WG8-CS2.pdf

1.2 Distribution The European Eel is continuously distributed from North and Northwest Africa in the South, to northern Norway and the White Sea in the North. They occur from islands as Iceland, Madeira and the Canary Islands in the Atlantic to Turkey and Egypt in Eastern Mediterranean Sea (see the map). Despite their unique capabilities to migrate upstre-am they occur more and more sparsely with distance from the sea and with the number of dams and other obstacles. Therefore today’s distri-bution is very much reduced compared to pristine conditions. 1.3 Biological characteristics 1.3.1 Life history characteristics of the species Anguilla anguilla is a amphihaline, demersal, catadromous species that occurs in many different environments from pure freshwater lakes and streams to fully marine areas. Brackish water areas as estuaries are commonly occupied by eels. They reproduce in the Sargasso Sea which