Conservationists
from Gloucestershire are travelling to France to look at ways of stopping the
decline of eels.
The
group will see work being carried out in Normandy where two dams on the Selune
River are being removed.
The
visit is part of a wider campaign to draw attention to river barriers which
stop the migratory European eel from reaching its home waters.
It
is estimated there are 1,500 river barriers, tidal gates, flap valves and weirs
in France.
Dr
Gordon McGlone, from the Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust, said he feared the
county would lose its elvers and silver eels forever unless UK and European
countries take rapid action.
"This
once common fish is now in such decline that commercial fisheries are in
crisis," he said.
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