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| This project is part of the collaboration agreement signed between the Murcia City Council and Anse for the recovery of the Segura river bank | The Visitor Center of La Contraparada, managed by the Department of Sustainable Development and Huerta of the Murcia City Council, led by the mayor Antonio Navarro, will host different exhibition elements from today with which to publicize the GePesAng project (Eel Monitoring for the management of fisheries in the Natura 2000 Network) to the entire population.

The exhibition can be visited from today by all those interested in the usual hours of the Center: Saturdays, Sundays and holidays, between 9:30 and 14:00.This initiative is part of the collaboration agreement signed between the Murcia City Council and Anse for the recovery of the Segura river bank.The GePesAng project aims to improve the available knowledge on European eel populations and the management of their fishing.

This will make it possible to propose a series of management measures for the fisheries of this species, which will ensure its survival.Globally threatened speciesThe European eel is a globally threatened species and is considered critically endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) due to the continuous decline in its populations.

This fish was very abundant in most of the rivers of the Iberian Peninsula, even occupying the irrigation infrastructures of the Huerta de Murcia, such as ditches and random, but the contamination of the waters of the Segura river in the past decade and overfishing caused almost disappeared.The eels return to the Segura riverIn recent years, the improvement in the quality of the waters has allowed eels to be detected again both in the river and in the orchard, and the intricate irrigation network forms a network of ideal aquatic environments for the development of this species so linked to our garden.European regulations establish the obligation of responsible management of catches that guarantees that a percentage of the eels can complete their biological cycle.

In view of the fact that the management that has been carried out of the species has not modified its tendency in decline, ANSE, in collaboration with the Biodiversity Foundation, of the Ministry for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge, through the Pleamar Program, co-financed by the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund (FEMP), it has developed the Sustainable Anguilla Fisheries projects in the Natura 2000 Network in 2018 and the GePesAng project between 2019 and 2020.Permanent exhibition on the Segura and the orchardThe Visitor Center of La Contraparada, which is located in the hamlet of Javalí Nuevo, has a permanent exhibition on the river Segura and the garden of Murcia.

It also has a service of guided tours around the center and a multipurpose space that can be requested by any group interested in carrying out activities in the heart of the Murcian garden.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia