This is not a maritime seaboard where eel fishing is highly developed like on the Atlantic seaboard or the Mediterranean coast, but eel fishery is part of activities of the marine fishermen communities.
There are 23 fishermen fishing for glass eel and yellow eel with vessels registered in the ports of Dieppe, Le Havre, Cherbourg, Caen and Boulogne.
There are 4 river fishermen who fish for yellow eel on the Rhine, the Ill and the Alsace canal.