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If you fish for eel professionally, you must keep written records for eel fishing. You summarize these in an annual report for the calendar year and submit it to the upper fisheries authority.

If you fish for eels professionally, you must keep written/digital records of your eel fishing.

In these records, you must state the fishing area and water body, the total catch weight of the eels, the proportion of silver eels and the type and operating time of the fishing gear used.

For the annual report, summarize these records for the calendar year and submit them to the upper fisheries authority.

They must be registered for eel fishing, i.e. have a registration number.

• They summarize their eel fishing and check their data for completeness.
• You send the information to the upper fisheries authority.
• The upper fisheries authority receives your reports and checks them. If necessary, questions will be clarified with you.
• You are obliged to keep the records on which the report is based for at least five years.

If eel fishing was carried out in at least one month, an entry must be made in each case.

Entries are required for all months in which eel fishing actually took place, even if no catch was recorded. This serves to fully record the fishing effort in the eel fishery.

• Annual report eel catch commercial fishing
  • Create records for each day of eel fishing per water body
  • Summarize records for the calendar year
  • Send annual report on eel catch
  • Keep records for at least 5 years
• Prerequisite: none
• Responsible: Upper Fisheries Authority Brandenburg (LELF)

The Upper Fisheries Authority at the State Office for Rural Development, Agriculture and Land Consolidation

Department of Agriculture

Department L4, Fisheries Division