A model for the upstream motion of elvers in the Adour River

Authored by P Gomez-Mourelo

Date Published: 2005

DOI: 10.1016/j.crvi.2004.09.012

Sponsors: No sponsors listed

Platforms: C

Model Documentation: Other Narrative Flow charts Mathematical description

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Abstract

The aim of this paper is contributing to the study of the exploitation of the European eel (Anguilla anguilla) in the basin of the French river `Adour'. This exploitation constitutes the basis of the economy of local professional fishermen, who have recently noticed a diminution of the hunting of elvers. In order to design a sustainable exploitation strategy, we must know as much as possible about eel life cycle. For that purpose, we build a model to describe a phase of eels evolution, their migration upstream the river. Our model is based on the biological details of eels behaviour and constitutes a virtual laboratory, useful to test different hypotheses about eels migration. (c) 2004 Academie des sciences. Published by Elsevier SAS. All rights reserved.

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Dynamics Variability Estuary Bay L. Eel anguilla-anguilla Biscay Glass-eels Migratory behavior American eel