Saving Europe’s endangered eels

[@charshill2978]

I rescued dozens from our local dried up river in Ireland. Wonderful creatures.

[@tedandrews405]

Are the elvers still being harvested on a commercial venture basis? If so,surely restricting this would be the place to start.

[@sergemarlon]

They are. They're worth about 5,000 CAD a kilogram. That tiny haul of 30 in one dip, is valued at about $30.

[@Nigfis]

Years ago, at my local river here in Wales I saw Glass Eels in their thousands climbing up wet rocks right next to a river-wide obstacle. I had no idea at the time just how much trouble they were in, but they were a very unusual and beautiful sight.

[@makkaya86]

Great info, great rivers.. such an enigma..

[@delconashvilleline]

Very interesting video and well done. In the United States the American Eel faces many of the same obstacles. The biggest being our manmade dams that had devastating impacts on the population of our eels.

[@NyiNyiTun7]

Thanks for your video clip. I got a lot of knowledge form this.

[@hempmaiden]

All of humanity needs to work together to restore the rivers so that the eels can swim free

[@thebookman1036]

Glass eels are also caught in the hundreds of thousands in Spain, which are just a smaller version of the elvers

[@killack4944]

They are called glass eels they are also caught in the Portuguese estuaries

[@sharonbeard345]

Good video

[@AnneAndersonFoxiepaws]

Why catch the baby eels? Elvers...surely that's where the problem lies. Stop that and eels should have a better chance I would have thought. The government should stop all but the long standing historical licences, even those should be limited, those people are best placed to oversee what's actually happening and report poaching, which is bound to happen, because its impacting their livelihoods and that's the most likely way to stop elvers being overfished.

[@NOBLEFILMS1987]

They Need To Stop All Fishing Of Eels, Because They Only Mate Once, At The End Of There Lives, Once They Are About 100 Years Old, And Then, They Die.

[@The_Actually_Real_Elon_Musk]

@@NOBLEFILMS1987 100 years not true more like 17 to 22 depending on gender

[@lambchoptheplant]

Hi. Is the underwater footage owned by CGTN? If so, is it licensable?

[@razorscience]

please email [e-mail] with your request. Thanks

[@banhatlessducks]

Start with the health of the ocean otherwise they'll stop breeding

[@Heartsanime]

Overfishing. End of story.

[@killack4944]

By the big trawler fishing industries

[@charshill2978]

Industrialidation of rivers, runoff of fertilizer from agriculture, hydro plants. Literally explains this in the video.