Abstract The Mediterranean Sea is now acknowledged to be a hot spot for marine litter.
However, little is known about Floating Macro Litter (FML) concentration at the scale of the …

The spawning areas of the Atlantic freshwater eels were discovered about a century ago by
the Danish scientist Johannes Schmidt who after years of searching found newly hatched …

In the era of plastic and global environmental issues, when large garbage patches have
been observed in the main oceanic basins, this work is the first attempt to explore the …

This review examines the present state of knowledge about the ecology of anguilliform
leptocephali, which are the unique but poorly understood larvae of eels. All eels spawn in …

Some animals migrate huge distances in search of resources with locomotory mode
(flying/swimming/walking) thought to drive the upper ceilings on migration distance. Yet in …

The collapse in recruitment of the European eel (Anguilla anguilla) since the early 1980s
has been ascribed to possible overfishing, poisoning, parasitism, habitat loss and changes …

Worldwide, exploited marine fish stocks are under threat of collapse [1]. Although the drivers
behind such collapses are diverse, it is becoming evident that failure to consider …

The precarious state of many nearshore marine ecosystems has prompted the use of marine
protected areas as a tool for management and conservation. However, there remains …

Recent advances in high-resolution ocean circulation models, coupled with a greater
understanding of larval behaviour, have increased the sophistication of individual-based …

The distribution of all larval stages of the Japanese eel, Anguilla japonica, were examined
using historical catch records and original data in the western North Pacific (WNP) to …