Escapement of a silver-phase eel population, Anguilla anguilla, determined from fishery in a Mediterranean lagoon (Or, France)

• Published in: ICES Journal of Marine Science
• Main Authors: Charrier, Fabien, Mazel, Virgile, Caraguel, Jean-Marie, Abdallah, Yann, Le Gurun, Laëtitia, Legault, Antoine, Laffaille, Pascal
• Other Authors: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - CNRS (FRANCE), Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse - INPT (FRANCE), Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier - UPS (FRANCE), Association Migrateurs Rhône Méditerranée - MRM (FRANCE), Fish-Pass (FRANCE), Laboratoire Ecologie fonctionnelle et Environnement - EcoLab (Toulouse, France)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford University Press 2012
• Subjects: Biodiversité et Ecologie; Ecosystèmes; Conservation plans; European eel; Sustainable fisheries; Tag-recapture; Anguilla anguilla
• Online Access: http://oatao.univ-toulouse.fr/6229/; http://oatao.univ-toulouse.fr/6229/1/Charrier_6229.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fsr169

Escapement of silver eels from a Mediterranean lagoon was estimated by a capture–tagging–recapture and automated tag-reading study. The population of silver-phase eels in the lagoon was estimated to be 13.2 kg ha21, with an escapement rate from the commercial fishery of 76.8%.