BEAUTIFUL FISH: AMERICAN EEL -By Al Bezanson

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American eel; Silver eel; Fresh-water eel; Elver (young) … A tremendous run, in Little River, near Gloucester, on May 5, 1913 .. even working their way up over damp rocks .. so plentiful that he caught 1,500 in one scoop of a small dip net and 545 with a few grabs of his bare hand.  (Welsh)  The life history of the eel is just the antithesis of that of the salmon, shad, and alewife, for eels breed far out at sea, but make their growth either in estuarine situations or in fresh water.  Eels drop wholly out of sight when once they leave shore; no one knows how deep they swim, but they certainly journey out beyond the continental slope into the oceanic basin before depositing their eggs.

More here, in Fishes of the Gulf of Maine by Bigelow and Schroeder, 1953

http://www.gma.org/fogm/Anguilla_rostrata.htm

 

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