Skip Zink has been a field biologist with the Maine Department of Marine Resources for twenty-five years. His specialty for the last fifteen has been the American eel, Anguilla rostrata, one of the ...
EASTHAMPTON — Several mysteries surround American eels, a species that spends a portion of its life in Massachusetts. For example, no one has ever observed the species spawn, and only one has ever ...
The American eel fishery has historically focused on mature eels (as shown here), which are exported around the world. But these days, there’s more money to be made from juveniles. Photo by Darren ...
Juvenile American eels are transparent and called glass eels. They annually migrate north to New York's Hudson River from February through May. For the first time, this citizen science data will be ...
The American eel fishery has historically focused on mature eels (as shown here), which are exported around the world. But these days, there’s more money to be made from juveniles. Photo by Darren ...