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CANADIAN JOURNAL OF FISHERIES AND AQUATIC SCIENCES
Volume 57, Issue 8, Pages 1627-1635Publisher
CANADIAN SCIENCE PUBLISHING
DOI: 10.1139/f00-096
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This paper describes the assessment of silver European eel (Anguilla anguilla) escapement based on a sedentary population fraction analysis in a 60-km(2) watershed of northern Brittany (France). Downstream migration fluxes were monitored using eel traps and related to environmental factors. Intensive electrofishing and fyke-net fishing were conducted to assess eel biomass, densities, and population structure. A total of 564 eels, including 81 silver eels, were PIT tagged. In 1996, 616 eels were caught in the catchment including 68 silver eels (11%). During the following downstream migration period, 12 of the PIT-tagged silver eels, among a total of 678, were recaptured in the downstream traps. Seven were recaptured in the catchment in 1997. It was shown that (i) only about 20% of the silver eels present in the catchment emigrated during the following year, (ii) 12% stayed in the catchment including two (3.4%) that recovered yellow eel characteristics, and (iii) the other eels either died or settled in the catchment but were not recaptured. It was also estimated that 2% (650 eels) of the population (34 000 eels) among 3000 silver eels considered emigration candidates emigrated each year.
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