The Saw Mill River is home to
the American eel, a species in serious decline up and down the East Coast, so creating a healthy ecosystem and food chain was an important goal.
Rypina, I. I., L. J. Pratt, J. Llopiz, and S. Lozier, 2014: Dispersal pathways of
American eel larvae from the Sargasso Sea.
I knew, for instance, that the long - running mystery over European and
American eels» spawning sites eventually led to the North Atlantic's Sargasso Sea (SN Online: 4/13/17).
North
American eels are suffering steep drop - offs as well.
Sky - high prices for juvenile
American eels have created conflict in Maine between fishermen and fisheries biologists over the fate of the species
Alewives swam back 2 million strong in the first year, along with striped bass,
American eels, and eight other species of fish once native to the Kennebec.
Not exact matches
While sorting through a shipment of fish trawled off the coast of Guinea in West Africa and sent to the
American Museum of Natural History in New York, Christopher Martinez's attention was brought to a pair of these
eels.
A new exhibition at the
American Museum of Natural History in New York celebrates luminescent wildlife — and may introduce the first known biofluorescent
eel
The researchers» investigations into fish biofluorescence began with a serendipitous observation of green
eel fluorescence off of Little Cayman Island as Sparks and Gruber were imaging coral biofluorescence for an exhibit for the traveling
American Museum of Natural History exhibition Creatures of Light: Nature's Bioluminescence.