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NETHERLANDS-FISHING-ANIMALS-EELS-SCIENCE
TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY JAN HENNOP
Dutch eels are released from a bucket after being carried across a Dutch dike at Nieuwendijk on September 18, 2013 at the start of the “Eels over the Dike” project. Twice a week, Dutch fisherman Aart van der Waal sets out on his flat-bottomed boat to pull up the traps as part of an ambitious plan to help save Europe's decimated eel population, an indicator species for the health of the continent's estuaries seas. As part of "Eels Over The Dikes", some 50 volunteers consisting of professional and recreational fishers backed by funds from a fishing-industry foundation, the Dutch government and the European Union, lend a hand to help these mysterious creatures get back to the sea. Over the last three decades, European eel numbers have been devastated, falling by as much as 99 percent in some areas, according to EU figures. One of the main reasons is that eels, which migrate from sea to fresh water and back, often find their paths blocked or are killed or injured when they swim through pump houses, sluice gates or hydro-engineering projects. AFP PHOTO / JAN HENNOP
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NIEUWENDIJK, NETHERLANDS |
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AFP / Mediafax Foto |
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Jan Hennop |
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6 Octombrie 2013 |
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