Eels are an essential part of the Po Delta’s heritage, particularly due to traditional fishing that takes place in this region, the culture it conveys and all the economic and social development it has enabled over the centuries. The decline in European eel...
Wels catfish (Silurus glanis) is the largest freshwater fish in Europe. Over the past 50 years, through deliberate or accidental introduction, this species – formerly native to eastern and central parts of the continent (particularly the Danube) – has...
The Dordogne basin is part of the last river-estuarine system that still supports all 8 species of migratory amphihaline fish in Europe, with the most famous being the Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar), the Shad (Alosa alosa), the Sea lamprey (P marinus), the European...