WGEEL develops tools and methods to compile and analyse comprehensive data on the widespread single stock of the European eel. Further, the group reviews the impacts of both anthropogenic and non-anthropogenic factors on the stock.
Following the drastic decline of recruitment in the European eel after the 1980s, many efforts were undertaken by policy-makers to facilitate the recovery of the stock. It is the role of WGEEL to describe the current stock status and improve our understanding of its dynamics in order to inform policy makers and provide the scientific basis for the advice.
