December 10, 2013 — Following recent reports from ICES and HELCOM classifying several species of eel as critically endangered, Oceana says that aside from fishing, hydropower plants are also killing hundreds of thousands of eels every year.
The organisation says that dams supporting hydropower production have made migration in the majority of Sweden’s water streams impossible for fish, and that thousands of dams are permanent migration barriers which have decimated fish populations and forced species out of streams. Despite an EU directive telling countries to alter and enhance the migration routes of the fish, Oceana says that there has not been sufficient action.
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