More than 3 tonnes of eels released in the Mediterranean Sea since 23 December 2022 by professional fishermen.

The professional eel fishermen of the Mediterranean have just released 810 kg of eel on the shore of the commune of Bouzigues (Hérault department) with the help of the company Aguirrebarrena. Since 23 December 2022, nearly 3 tonnes have been released into the sea to reduce the mortality of these silver eels, thus illustrating the

Best Wishes for 2023

For 2023, all our best wishes: The AFPMAR, in support of the official structures of the fishing industry and the eel sector, will be very attentive from now on to the efforts that must be made so that in Europe, the objectives of the Framework Directives on Water, Habitats and the Marine Environment are finally

More than 100 members

On the threshold of this new year and a little less than two months after its creation, the A.F.P.M.A.R. associationvhas exceeded one hundred members with 109 contributors from various basins on the Atlantic coast.

TAC and quota review 2023 – A government update on eel issues

A new release of silver eels in the Mediterranean Sea with the prud’homie of Valras plage

On Monday 19th of December, the CPMR Occitania organised a release of silver eels with the participation of fishermen from the Valras plage prud’homie and the Aguirrebarrena company for the collection and transport of 944 kg of eels. The eels collected in the Vendres sector were released at the mouth of the river Aude to

No ban on eel fishing in 2023

Although France agrees with the scientists’ conclusion on eel stock, it is opposed, together with eight Member States, to the quasi-ban on eel fishing as proposed by the European Commission. The new regulation will be highly regionalised and will only come into effect from March 2023. The State Secretary for the Sea has thus obtained

European Fisheries Response to the European Commission’s Eel Proposal.

For a field management of eel, not a management in slippers!

President of the National Committee for marine fisheries and marine fish farming (CNPMEM), Olivier Le Nézet, calls for the withdrawal of this proposal (see News: Position of the European Commission on the European eel – COM(2022) 559 final) by the European Commissioner in charge of the eel issue, following the dialogue of the deaf between

New eel release by the regional committee of maritime fisheries of Occitania in the Mediterranean

On Thursday 1st December, the Comité Régional des Pêches d’Occitanie organised an eel release with the participation of the professional fishermen of the Ayrole pond and the company Aguirrebarrena for the transport of the 1,180 kg of eels caught. Below are some pictures of the main phases of the operation. The eels were then released

A very promising opening of the glass eel fishing season on the River Adour at the end of November 2022.

A very promising opening for hand sieve fishing on the River Adour. Significant catches can be made in turbid water, even during the day, with a hand sieve, and this shows a very promising start of the fishing season on this river. The video opposite shows a professionnal fisherman using a hand sieve from his