Eel producers band together for best shot at the future

摘要

The Victorian eel industry is informally divided into two regions: one east of Port Phillip Bay and one west. The western region is based on two sectors, the wild catch from gazetted public waters and an extensive culture sector based on stock enhancement of allocated crown leases and the wild catch sector. The western industry reached a peak of 400 tonnes in the 1980s but increasingly drier seasons over the last two decades has seen the harvest fall dramatically to a low of 18 tonnes at the peak ofthe drought in 2004.