Papers Presented to the 7th Session of the EIFAC Working Party on Eel

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The Seventh Session of the Working Party on Eel of the European Inland Fisheries Advisory Commission was held in the Royal Hospital, Killmainham, Dublin. A list of the peer-reviewed papers and abstracts of other presentations to the session are given below. -- I M Domingos: Fluctuation of glass eel migration in the Mondego estuary (Portugal) in 1988 and 1989. -- Daniel Guerault, Raymonde Lecomte-Finiger, Yves Desaunay, Sylvie Biagianti-Risbourg, Pierre Beillois and Patrick Grellier: Glass eel arrivals in the Vilaine estuary (Northern Bay of Biscay) in 1990: Demographic features and early life history. -- Jan G P Klein Breteler: Effect of provenance and density on growth and survival of glass eels Anguilla anguilla (L.) in mesocosm experiments. -- R. Lecomte-Finiger, S. Biagianti-Risbourg, Y. Desaunay, D. Guerault, B. Fourcault, S. Planes and A. Yahyaoui: Age at recruitment of A. anguilla glass-eels on the eastern Atlantic coast as inferred from otolith growth increments. -- P McGovern and T K McCarthy: Elver migration in the River Corrib system, western Ireland. -- Christopher Moriarty: Catches of Anguilla anguilla (L.) elver on the Atlantic coast of Europe 1989-1990. -- Maria Assuncao Santos and Michael Weber: Growth studies on monthly captured glass eels from the Rio Minho in two recirculation systems. -- Raymonde Lecomte-Finiger: Age and birth date of elvers collected in Moorea (French Polynesia) (poster). -- Lotti Ben Abdallah: Influence of some abiotic factors on the abundances of glass eel Anguilla anguilla (L.) in the estuary of the River Loire, France (abstract). -- C. Belpaire, H Van Driessche, F Y Gao and F Ollevier: Food and feeding activity of glass eel Anguilla anguilla (L.) stocked in earthen ponds. -- Maria Bninska and Marian Leopold: The effect of eel on fish stock composition in lakes- preliminary results. -- Rose M Callaghan and T Kieran McCarthy: Variations in population structure and growth rate of eels in the Dunkellin river system, western Ireland. -- J L Costa, P R Almeida, C Assis, F Moreira and M J Costa: A study of methods of estimating the size of eel populations in small streams. -- Christopher Moriarty: Management of the Corrib eel fishery, Ireland. -- I A Naismith and B Kights: The distribution, density and growth of the European eel Anguilla anguilla (L.) in the River Thames catchment. -- W Russell Poole, Julian D Reynolds and Christopher Moriarty: Age and growth of eel Anguilla anguilla (L.) in oligotrophic streams. -- R H Hadderingh, J W van der Stoep and J M P M Habraken: Deflecting eels from water inlets of power stations with light. -- K Holmgren, H Wickstrom and K Fredga: Growth of eel in a meoscale experiment. -- Aline Caillou, Christian Francisco, Raymonde Lecomte-Finiger and Jean-Marie Salmon: Lipofuscin used as an age indicator in the European eel Anguilla anguilla (L.). Comparison between lipopigment, fluorimetric measurements and otolithometric data (poster). -- Peer Doering, Jiirgen Ludwig and Gerhard Gmel: Prelimary results of otolith amalysis with eels of known age (abstract). -- Antoine Legault: A study of some selectivity factors in eel ladders (abstract). -- F - W Tesch: Insignificance of tidal currents for silver eel migration as studied by eel trac.kings and current measurements. -- F - W Tesch and U Niermann: Stock density of eel larvae Anguilla anguilla (L.) on the European continental slope, based on collections made between 1985 and 1989. -- Takakazu Ozawa, Futoshi Kakizoe, Osame Tabeta, Takashi Maeda and Yasutaka Yuwaki: Larval growth and drift of the Japanese eel Anguilla japonica estimated from leptocephali collections (abstract). -- W-N Tzeng and Y-C Tsai: Otolith microstructural growth patterns and daily age of the eel Anguilla japonica elvers from the estuaries of Taiwan (abstract). -- S Appelbaum and V Birkan: The effect of grading on the growth and distribution pattern in young eels Anguilla anguilla (L.) reared in recirculating systems. -- Inge Boiitius, Karl Otto Wahlstrom and Curt Gelin: Experimentally induced sexual maturity in farmed European eel Anguilla anguilla (L.). -- G. Golombo and G. Grandi: Further experiments in the effects of sex steroids on the gonad sex differentiation of European eel. -- Soeren Hendriksen: Production of eel in recirculation systems in Denmark 1985-1991. -- M Saroglia, C lando Ii, lingle and G Angle: Recent developments in eel farming in Italy. -- Reiner Knosche: An effective biofilter system for eel culture in closed recirculating systems. -- Hao-Ren Lin, Mei-Li Zhang, Lianxi Chen, Glen Van Der Kraak and R E Peter: Effects of sex steroids on gonadotropin synthesis and secretion as well as ovarian development in female Japanese silver eel Anguilla japonica (abstract). -- J Hoglund, J Andersson, H. Wickstrom and M Reizenstein: The distribution of Anguillicola in Sweden and its association with thermal discharge areas. -- J Bosnakovski, K Necev, K Apostolski and M Hristovski: Appearance of eel diseases in Ohrid Lake. Inge Boetius: Development of Anguillicola infestations in some Danish lakes and inlets (abstract).