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• Pisces Conservation's eel regulation expertise (1898 kb)
• Evidence for a population collapse of European eel (Anguilla anguilla) in the Bristol Channel: Henderson, P.A., Plenty, S.J., Newton, L.C. and Bird, D.J. (2012). Journal of the Marine Biological Association 94, 843-851. (327 kb)

• Full text of the Eels (England and Wales) Regulations 2009 (78 kb)
• Full text of Council Regulation (EC) No 1100/2007 of 18 September 2007, establishing measures for the recovery of the stock of European eel (63 kb)

• DEFRA - Eel Management plans for the UK; publ. March 2010 (829 kb)
• OSPAR Commission - Background document for European eel Anguilla anguilla (2,248 kb)
• EIFAC CONSULTATION ON EEL FISHING GEAR AND TECHNIQUES, HAMBURG, Federal Republic of Germany, 10-17 October 1970 (4.7MB).

• Environment Agency - European Eel fact sheet
• Environment Agency - Eel Management Plans
• Environment Agency - Eel fisheries in the UK
• Environment Agency - Eel facts & figures
• Environment Agency - Elver poaching
• Environment Agency - Elver net regulations
• Environment Agency - Adult eel net regulations
• Environment Agency - Eel & elver fishing byelaws

• Inland Fisheries Ireland - Eel Monitoring Programme reports

• The Breeding Places of the Eel; Johs. Schmidt. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. B 1923 211, 179-208.
• Ecology of Anguilliform Leptocephali: Remarkable Transparent Fish Larvae of the Ocean Surface Layer; Michael J. Miller. Aqua-BioSci. Monogr. (ABSM), Vol. 2, No. 4, pp. 1-94 (2009) (9,566 kb)
• Population structure of the parasitic nematode Anguillicola crassus, an invader of declining North Atlantic eel stocks; Sebastien Wielgoss, Horst Taraschewski, Axel Meyer & Thierry Wirth (2008). Molecular Ecology 17 (15): 3478-3495.
• An experimental field study on the migratory behaviours of glass eel (Anguilla anguilla) at the interface of fresh and salt waters, with implications to the management and improvement of glass eel migration.; Tammo P. Bult and Willem Dekker (2006). Wageningen IMARES.
• Temporal patterns in the upstream migration of European glass eels (Anguilla anguilla) at the Couesnon estuarine dam; P. Laffaille, J.-M. Caraguel, A. Legault (2007). Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, Volume 73, Issues 1-2, June 2007, Pages 81-90. (Originally obtained from http://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/docs/00/79/34/00/PDF/Laffaille_6202.pdf).
• Estimating the stock of glass eels in an estuary by mark-recapture experiments using vital dyes.; C. Briand, D. Fatin, E. Feunteun, G. Fontenelle. Bull. Fr. Pêche Piscic. (2005) 378-379 : 23-46. (Originally obtained from http://www.onema.fr/BFPP/bfpp/Article/378_379/378p023.pdf).
• Ascent of elvers, Anguilla anguilla (L.), and prospects for their use in aquaculture.; Gilberto Gandolfia, Remigio Rossi, Paolo Tongiorgi, Mara Pesaro & Stefano De Ranieri (1980). Boll. Zool. 47: 365-380 (1980). (Originally obtained from http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/11250008009438693).
• Flow-carried and active swimming migration of the glass eel (Anguilla anguilla) in the tidal area of a small estuary on the French Atlantic coast.; Didier Gascuel (1986). Laboratoire de Biologie Halieutique de l'ENSAR - ERA/IFREMER. (Originally obtained from http://halieutique.agrocampus-ouest.fr/pdf/3477.pdf).
• THE efficiency of selective tidal stream transport in glass eel entering the Gironde (France).; L. Beaulaton & G. Castelnaud (2005). Bull. Fr. Pêche Piscic. (2005) 378-379 : 5-21. (Originally obtained from http://www.csp.ecologie.gouv.fr/BFPP/bfpp/Article/378_379/378p005.pdf).
• Migration pattern of silver eel (Anguilla anguilla, L.) in an obstructed river system. (2008); Acou, Anthony, Laffaille, Pascal and Legault, Antoine. Ecology of Freshwater Fish, Vol. 17 (n° 3). pp. 432-442. ISSN 1600-0633 (Originally obtained from http://oatao.univ-toulouse.fr/6220/1/Acou_6220.pdf).
• West Sutherland Fisheries Trust - West Sutherland Elver Survey (1,252 kb)