ABSTRACT
The 2003 Québec Declaration of Concern (Dekker et al. 2003) raised alarm about the declining stock abundance of the temperate-zone anguillid eelsAnguilla anguilla, A. japonica, and A. rostrata. Since then, much new research has been conducted on eel biology and stock status and many concerned nations have implemented new stock management measures. The stock status of the American eel (A. rostrata) has since been reviewed in the following reports: (a) Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada (COSEWIC 2006, 2012), (b) U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS 2007; Shepard 2015), (c) Canadian Science Advisory Secretariat (DFO 2010, 2014), (d) Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission (ASMFC 2012), and (e) International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) (Jacoby et al. 2014). With the exception of COSEWIC (2012), which raised the at-risk status for the American eel from
1 Department of Fisheries and Oceans, Bedford Institute of Oceanography, P.O. Box 1006, Dartmouth, NS, B2Y 4A2, Canada (retired).
