Re: [VFB] Freshwater eels

[KEITH PASSANT]

That must have been a small one Jester if it could only manage a car. We get 
them in the .UK but not to the same size as the NZ fish. There has been a 
bit of a decline in
numbers of these fish here and no-one is sure as yet why this is. In the UK 
there is a run
each year of eel fry (elvers) which are regarded as a delicacy in the so say 
posh
restaurants and they have been fetching stupid prices per kilo of upto £400 
plus. This has
bought out the unscrupulous who have been robbin the elver fishers of their 
catch on the
river bank. The methods used by the fishers are unchanged for the past 100+ 
years so they wont be a significant cause of the decline in adult fish. The 
research continues...
KP




Does anybody have anything like this where you are in the US or Europe?

<img src="http://www.geocities.com/bensshack/eel.JPG";>

Wes Wada
Bend, Oregon