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Originally Posted by snake slinger
i love eels!how come the people that trap them are not saying there numbers are down?the bait shop were i get my eels always seams to have pleanty.
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I don't have my notes handy but the commercial catch of eels has declined from several million pounds in 1985 to less than 700 thousand pounds in 2002 and likely has declined further since 2002. So the answer to your question is that the people who trap them are saying that their numbers are waaaay down.
IMHO its going to be a race to see whether the ASMFC or the U.S. fish & wildife service will act first. Either way I'm betting that all commercial harvest will be stopped.