Finding out more about eels
EELS released into the Mar Menor at the end of 2019 with acoustic tracking devices are producing data on this relativelyunknown species.
The project has been carried out by biologists from the ANSE environmental association, whose members took information from the devices at the end of the summer.
They noted that 15 of the 29 eels swam out into the Mediterranean Sea over a period of three months via the narrow channels that lead out of the Mar Menor.
According to ANSE, this was ‘ presumably’ to start their 5,000kilometre journey to the breeding ground in the Sargasso Sea in the northern Atlantic Ocean.
ANSE have also been ringing eels as part of their study
on their behaviour.
They are trying to find out more about the habits of this mysterious fish in the Mar
Menor and its migratory habits.
n ANSE spokesman said that the data will be vitally important to help protect the species, with populations in a critical situation in European waters.