Painting: William Sidney Mount's Spearing Eels in Setauket (1845)
Eels are very cool fish with remarkable life histories. They are also good to eat. Eeling, like crabbing, used to be a major cottage industry along the North American coast.
The first time I caught an eel, as a kid, I thought I had caught a snake. Unlike snakes, Eels are slimy and difficult to get a grip on.
Damming of rivers and streams is the likely cause of the drop-off of eel populations, just as with other anadromous fish.
Magnetic Maps Behind one of Nature’s Craziest Migrations
BRINGING BACK AMERICAN EELS IN THE SUSQUEHANNA RIVER