The Thames Anglers’ Conservancy in partnership with the Zoological Society for London (ZSL) monitors the eel trap at Molesey weir. Volunteers from the TAC have been trained in how to record any eels that are caught in the trap during the migratory season.
This is now into our 3rd year, the 2013 results were remarkable so will the pattern be repeated. Details of how we got on last year can be found HERE
The trap getting a spring clean after the winter floods
Research over the last 30 years has shown that the European eel (Anguilla anguilla) is facing a range of threats that are severely impacting on their recruitment – and potentially their populations in freshwater – leading to its 2008 Critically Endangered classification in the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s Red List of Threatened Species. The number of young eels joining the resident adult population across European catchments is believed to have declined by up to 95% since the early 1980s.
In 2005, in response to this alarming decline, the Zoological society of London set up its Eel Monitoring Programme.
Environment Agency Eel regulatory position – July 2012
Environment Agency – Delivering our Duty for Eel Jan 2014
Final ZSL report on all Eel Monitoring sites for 2013
This page will give regular updates of the Eels caught during 2014, and if you are interested in joining this important conservation project, please contact the TAC at admin@rivertac.org
A bucket full of Elvers from 2013
2014 results
30/04/2014 – 0
03/05/2014 – 0
07/05/2014 – 0
10/05/2014 – 0
14/05/2014 – 0
17/05/2014 – 0
20/05/2014 – 1
22/05/2014 – 1
24/05/2014 – 1
31/05/2014 – 0
07/06/2014 – 0
10/06/2014 – 4
14/06/2014 – 2
15/06/2014 – 1
18/06/2014 – 0
21/06/2014 – 0
25/06/2014 – 0
28/06/2014 – 0
02/07/2014 – 1
07/07/2014 – 2
12/06/2014 – 2
16/07/2014 – 3
19/07/2014 – 18
22/07/2014 – 0
26/07/2014 – 1
30/07/2014 – 64
31/07/2014 – 174
01/08/2014 – 8
02/08/2014 – 15
06/08/2014 – 11
08/08/2014 – 4
12/08/2014 – 2
17/08/2014 – 0
29/08/2014 – 0
05/09/2014 – 0
11/09/2014 – 9
13/09/2014 – 0
20/09/2014 – 2
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