Elver fishing
The company Nounemaroc is connected to an amodiation of the wadi Sebou in order to supply the station of eel alvins called elver or pibale, this fishing is practiced in the edges of the wadis since the 1930s.
The inhabitants of the towns bordering the Wadis fished for consumption and then the appearance of eel aquaculture drove up prices and changed the lives of thousands of fishermen.
This fishery was once practised on tens of kilometers inside the land on the banks of the wadis. In the 1980s, with the construction of the first dams, elvers changed their behaviour and became less attracted to fresh water because, due to the dams’ restraints, they lost their sense of direction.
Obstacles responsible for eel reduction
The fry are lost in the estuaries downstream of the man-made obstacles, the eel stock then begins to decrease in the years 1983/85 and the elver runs also, which is due to factors like the natural environments degraded by increasing pollution from dams, the reduction of wetlands by impassable dams, and it is impossible to reach the fresh waters favourable to the good growth of fry.
Solutions against eel reduction
Fishermen, often blamed for the disappearance of many fish, quickly understood that this phenomenon did not come from overfishing but from many other things, dams, agricultural pollution and harmful discharges from industrial areas.
We had the idea to take fry from dams in estuaries, to create an economy, jobs, to repopulate upstream dams with anguillettes of good growth in order to regain in generating biomass, In short, to get the fry out of sensitive and dangerous areas to return to better areas in mountainous rivers and still rich natural environments.
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Elver fishing is an ancestral activity that we must preserve, it is a good source of income for some fishing families living on the banks of the wadis. (more than 600 families in Oued Sebou)
