Council Regulation (EC) No. 1100/2007 establishing measures for the recovery of the stock of European eel.

This Regulation establishes a framework for the protection and sustainable use of the stock of European eel of the species Anguilla anguilla in Community waters, in coastal lagoons, in estuaries, and in rivers and communicating inland waters of Member States that flow into the seas in ICES areas III, IV, VI, VII, VIII, IX or into the Mediterranean Sea. Specific rules are laid down concerning the Black Sea and the river systems connected to it. Member States shall adopt Eel Management Plans containing, at least, the following: the following measures: reducing commercial fishing activity; restricting recreational fishing; restocking measures; structural measures to make rivers passable and improve river habitats, together with other environmental measures, transportation of silver eel from inland waters to waters from which they can escape freely to the Sargasso Sea; combating predators; temporary switching-off of hydro-electric power turbines; measures related to aquaculture.