Tuesday 13 June 2017
	Session Chair: TBC	Session 1	‘Setting the Scene’
09:30	Andy Don	Environment Agency (UK)	Welcome from the Symposium Steering Group
09:40	Official Symposium Opening presented by Hugh Fearnly-Whittingstall
09:50	Aland Walker	Cefas (UK) and Chair ICES Anguillid Section	Challenges of management from a scientific perspective
10:20	Matthew Gollock	Zoological Society of London (UK) and IUCN	Anguillid conservation – the Global context
10:45	Hiromi Shiraishi	TRAFFIC Japan (JAP)	The illicit global trade in eels
11:05	BREAK	BREAK	BREAK
	Session Chair: Andrew Kerr, Sustainable Eel Group (UK)	Session 2	‘Species and Regions’
11:35	Tom Kwak	North Carolina State University (USA)	American eel Anguilla rostrata in the countries and territories of the Wider Carribean
11:55	Robert Schabetberger	University of Salzburg (AUS)	From the myth to reason – search for a spawning area of tropical eels in the western South Pacific
12:15	Kenzo Kaifu	Chuo University (JAP)	How science can contribute to conservation and sustainable use of Japanese eel?
12:35	Céline Hanzen	University of KwaZulu Natal (S. Africa)	Changes in historical distribution and genetic diversity of anguillid eels along the east coast of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
12:55	Peter Phillipsen	Nature Network (NL)	The Rhine Eel Roadmap
13:00	Markus Diekmann	Dept. for Inland Fisheries (GER)	On the actual recruitment of European eel in the River Ems, Germany
13:05	Nick Walker	George Mason University (USA)	Prioritizing Fish Habitat for American eel (Anguilla rostrata) in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed
13:10	LUNCH	LUNCH	LUNCH
	Session Chair: Andy Don, Environmental Agency (UK)	Session 3	‘Species and Regions’
14:10	Willem Dekker	SLU Aqua (SWE)	Dynamics of the European eel stock: historical perspective
14:30	Emna Derouiche	INSTM (TUN)	How many downstream silver eel escaped from Ichkeul Lake (Northern Tunisia) A mark-recapture experiment
14:50	Alejandro Belen	ZSL (Philippines)	Developing an Eel Management Plan for the Philippines – Process and Challenges
15:10	BREAK	BREAK	BREAK
	Session chair: Charles Crundwell, Environmental Agency
15:40	Pierre Sasal	University of Perpignan (FRA)	Research and conservation of the eels in the South Pacific region
16:00	Kazuki Yokouchi	National Research Institute of Fisheries Science (JAP)	Decadal monitoring of the Japanese eel demography in several model river systems in Japan
16:20	Mohamed Al Amouri	Mohamed V University (MOR)	Eel stock in Morocco
16:40	Hikaru Itakura	Kobe University (JAP)	Side fidelity, diel and seasonal activity of growth phase Japanese eel in the freshwater habitat inferred from acoustic telemetry
17:05	Jonah Tosney	Norfolk Rivers Trust (UK)	catchment-based approach to eel conservation on a small Norfolk river: The Glaven Eel Project
17:10	Pieterjan Verhelst	Ghent University (BE)	Emigration of European silver eel (Anguilla Anguilla) from a polder system in the Schelde estuary
17:15	Close of Day 1
19:30 – 23:00	Drinks and Poster Reception	RSA Vaults, the Strand
	Wednesday 14 June 2017
	Session Chair: Paul Coulson, Institute of Fisheries Management (UK)	Session 4	’Marine Phase Studies (1)’
08:50	Paul Coulson	Institute of Inland Fisheries (UK)	Opening remarks from the Organising Comitee
08:55	David Righton	Cefas (UK)	Extreme swimming: eels on their oceanic spawning migration
09:25	Nobuto Fukuda	National Research Institute of Fisheries Science (JAP)	Oceanic migration of each developmental stage in the Japanese eel
09:45	Martin Castonguay	Fisheries and Oceans Canada (CA)	New observations of American eels migrating across the continental shelf into the Sargasso Sea
10:05	Elsa Amilhat	University of Perpignan	Silver Eel migration in the Mediterranean Sea
10:25	Håkan Wickström	SLU Aqua (SWE)	Growth in stocked eels – promising results from a full scale marking experiment in marine environment
10:45	Yoichi Miyake	University of Tokyo (JAP)	Recruitment mechanism of Anguilla japonica glass eels implied by 50-years catch and oceanographic data and model
11:05	BREAK	BREAK	BREAK
	Session Chair: Matt Gollock, Zoological Society of London(UK)	Session 5	‘Monitoring and stock management’
11:35	Caroline Durif	Institute of Marine Research (NO)	Depth, home range and migratory behaviour of European eels tracked in coastal marine waters
11:55	Nick Walker	George Mason University (USA)	Stock assessment and prioritization of habitat and passage of American eel (Anguilla rostrata) in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed
12:15	Derek Evans	AFBI (UK)	Statistical analysis of the eel population dynamics of Lough Neagh, Northern Ireland
12:35	Kohma Arai	University of Tokyo (JAP)	A study on the natural distribution of the Japanese eel in the Tone River system, Japan
12:40	Priit Bernotas	Estonian University of Life Sciences (Estonia)	First results of using an enclosure fyke net system for estimating European eel abundance in a large and shallow lake
12:45	LUNCH	LUNCH	LUNCH
	Session Chair: TBC	Session 6	‘Monitoring and stock management’ (Barrier Studies)
14:00	Jonathan Bolland	Hull International Fisheries Institute (UK)	Route choice, passage and survivability of eels at a lowland pumping station
14:20	Sarah Mount	State University of New York (USA)	The Development of a Non-Lethal Maturity Index for American Eels
14:40	Jeroen Van Wichelen	Research Institute for Nature and Forest Agency (BE)	Evaluation of adjusted tidal barrier management for European glass eel migration: upstream dispersal and feeding behaviour
15:00	Adam Piper	ZSL and Environment Agency	Response of seaward-migrating European eel (Anguilla anguilla) of manipulated flow fields
15:20	Paul Kemp	Southampton University (UK)	summary of passage/screening ecohydraulic studies carried out at flumes
15:40	BREAK	BREAK	BREAK
	Session Chair: TBC	Session 7	‘Monitoring and stock management’ (Restocking)
16:10	Thomas Pratt	Fisheries and Oceans Canada (CA)	Lessons from a large-scaled American eel conservation stocking experiment
16:30	Maidu Slim/Mehis Rohtla	Estonian University of Life Sciences (Estonia)	Can we distinguish stronthium chloride marked European eels by country from isotope signals?
16:50	Shingo Kimura	University of Tokyo (JAP)	Inhabitation of the European eel in the Japanese rivers
17:10	Bjoern Kullmann	Hamburg University (GER)	Mass-marking of farmed European eels Anguilla anguilla (Linnaeus, 1758) with alizarinred S.
17:15	Billy Nzau Matondo	University of Liege (BE)	Long-term monitoring of European eels in the Belgian Meuse River basin. From the historical drastic decline to recent outcomes of restocking practises
17:20	Close of Day 2
19:00-22:45	Symposium Dinner on the River Thames
	Andrew Kerr	Sustainable Eel Group (UK)	Working towards a sustainable future for the eel
	Sophie Edwards	Thames Water (UK)	The Thames Water Eel Programme. Screening, science, challenges and opportunities
	Karl Bousfield	Hydrolux (UK/USA)	Hydrolux Eel and Fish Screening Solution
	Steve Colclough	Institute of Inland Fisheries (UK)	The history of eels in the Thames
	Thursday 15 June 2017
	Session Chair: Iain Turner, Institute of Fisheries Management (UK)	Session 8	‘Threats’
08:50	Paul Coulson	Institute of Inland Fisheries Management (UK)	Opening Remarks from the Organising Comitee
09:00	Olga Haenen	Wageningen University (NL)	The most important diseases of European eel in Europe in the last 30 years
09:30	Neil Lewin	Environment Agency (UK)	Silver Service: A Standard Protocol for Eel Health Examinations
09:50	Kuan-Mei Hsiung	University of Tokyo (JAP)	Effects of ENSO events and global warming on larval and juvenile duration and transport process of the Japanese eel (Anguilla japonica)
10:10	Maria Mateo	IRSTEA (FRA)	Assessing the impact of anthropogenic pressures on temperate eels using Genetics & Evolutionary ecology-based models for eels (GenEveel)
10:30	Kieran McCarthy	University of Galway (IRE)	Parasite assemblages of European eels in Irish freshwater, mixohaline and marine habitats
10:35	Ben Griffioen	Wageningen Marine Research (NL)	Silver eel migration in the river Meuse 2002-2015: mortality estimations and behavioural Patterns
10:40	Brittany Dixon	University of New Brunswick (Canada)	Near dam, spatio-temporal distribution of migrating American eel elvers and juvenile eels in the downstream reach of the Mactaquac Generating Station
10:45	BREAK	BREAK	BREAK
	Session Chair: Alan Walker, Cefas (UK)	Session 9	‘Threats’
11:15	Tatsuki Yoshinaga	Kitasato University (JAP)	CITES-listing and other social forces shrank the commercial utilization of the European eel in Japanese market between 2011 and 2016
11:35	David Buysse	Research Institute of Nature and Forest (BE)	Mortality of European eel after Downstream Migration through three types of pumping Station
11:55	Estibaliz Diaz	Marine Research. Itsas Ikerketa (SPA)	European eel (Anguilla anguilla) under climate Change
12:15	Claude Belpaire	Research Institute for Nature and Forest (BE)	Standardisation of eel quality assessments and the effects of contaminants on the eel stock
12:35	Florian Stein	Sustainable Eel Group (UK)	Combating the illegal trade in European eels
12:40	Rob Pilcher	AECOM (UK)	New guide and passage in the UK
12:45	Hendrik Doerner	European Commission, Joint Research Centre	Feeding behaviour of anguillid eels
12:50	LUNCH	LUNCH	LUNCH
	Session Chair: TBC	Session 10	‘Aquaculture and Genetics’
13:50	Oliviero Mordenti	University of Bologna (ITA)	Captive Breeding of the European Eel. A review of the work in Italy
14:10	Anke Zernack	Tanenuiarangi Manawatu Inc (NZ)	PROJECT TUNA – Overcoming the hurdles to establish an environmentally, economically and socially sustainable shortfin eel aquaculture industry in New Zealand
14:30	Chryoula Gubili	Helenic Agricultural Organisation (GRE)	Panmixia in the tropics: lack of genetic structure in sympatric eels
14:50	Andrew Griffiths, Matthew Gollock	University of Bristol, ZSL and IUCN	Sushi barcoding in the UK: another kettle of fish
15:10	BREAK	BREAK	BREAK
15:40-16:15	Facilitated by Matthew Gollock, Zoological Society of London (UK)	Session 11	‘Open discussion. The future’
15:40	Alan Walker	Cefas (UK) and Chair ICES Anguillid Section	Highlights and further work from the symposium
16:15	Symposium close
16:45-19:30	Closing Drink reception	The Edinboro Castle Pub, Camden	www.edinborocastlepub.uk
	Friday 16 June 2017
	Sustainable Eel Group	Annual meeting	Fishmongers Hall