368 EIFAC/ICES WGEEL Report 2008 Report on the eel stock and fishery in Belgium 2007 BE.A Authors Claude Belpaire, Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO), Duboislaan 14, 1560 Groenendaal‐Hoeilaart, Belgium. Tel. +32 +32 2 658 04 11. Fax +32 2 657 96 82
[email protected] Reporting Period: This report was completed in August 2008, and contains data up to 2008. Contributors to the report: Caroline Geeraerts, Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO), Duboislaan 14, 1560 Groenendaal‐Hoeilaart, Belgium. Hugo Verreycken, Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO), Duboislaan 14, 1560 Groenendaal‐Hoeilaart, Belgium. Gerlinde Van Thuyne, Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO), Duboislaan 14, 1560 Groenendaal‐Hoeilaart, Belgium. Maarten Stevens, Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO), Kliniekstraat 25, 1070 Brussels, Belgium. Johan Coeck, Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO), Kliniekstraat 25, 1070 Brussels, Belgium. David Buysse, Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO), Kliniekstraat 25, 1070 Brussels, Belgium. Serge Gomes da Silva, Groupe d’Intérêt pour les Poissons, la Pêche et l’Aquaculture (GIPPA), Av. Maréchal Juin 23, B‐5030 Gembloux, Belgium. Thierry Demol, Centre de Recherche de la Nature, des Forêts et le Bois‐Faune pisci‐ cole et Qualité biologique des eaux Avenue Maréchal Juin, 23‐5030 Gembloux, Bel‐ gium. Kristof Vlietinck, Agency for Nature and Forest, Brussels, Belgium. Xavier Rollin, Service de la Pêche, Avenue Prince de Liège 7, 5100 Jambes, Belgium. Jef Guelinckx, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Laboratory of Aquatic Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Ch. De Beriotstraat 32, 3000 Leuven Belgium. Els Cuveliers, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Laboratory of of Animal Diversity and Systematics, Ch.