Once upon a time, eel was Sweden's most common fish. It was found everywhere but was fished so heavily that it is now on the verge of extinction. The eel population is now one per cent of what it was in the 1950s. According to researchers, we must stop fishing for eel if it is to have a chance of survival, but fishermen disagree.
"Don’t catch any eels at all” say the scientists, if you want to have any eels left in the future. But according to Sofia Brockmark at the Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management (HaV), very few people fish for eel in Sweden and they don’t catch very many.
