Numbers and Facts

Would you like a little less?- caesium-137 in different fish species

Less caesium-137 in different fish species from the North Sea.

Eel landings and aquaculture production in Germany

German eel catches show a strong decrease in landings between 2005 and 2012. Since then, catches have only decreased slightly and even have increased again in some rivers. During the same time period, eel production in German aquaculture has almost doubled.

Sometimes less is more!

Less effort, more yield! What sounds like a typical phishing mail is nothing new in fisheries management and the European eel is no exception. This could also be uitilized for conservation of the species; but we’re not quite there yet.

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Institute of

FI Fisheries Ecology

Numbers and Facts

Would you like a little less?- caesium-137 in different fish species

Eel landings and aquaculture production in Germany

Sometimes less is more!

Johann Heinrich von Thünen Institute

Federal Research Institute for Rural Areas, Forestry and Fisheries