Document Type

Article

Title

Fisheries Now: American Eel

Authors

Julia Beaty, University of Maine

Editor

Dan Kircheis

Fred Kircheis

James McCleave

Publication Title

Downeast Fisheries Trail website

Publisher

Maine Sea Grant College Program

Rights and Access Note

Rights assessment remains the responsibility of the researcher. No known restrictions on publication.

Publication Date

2014

Publisher location

Orono, ME

Abstract/ Summary

The American eel is the only species in the Gulf of Maine that spends most of its life in freshwater but spawns in the Sargasso Sea, a large area of the Atlantic Ocean south of Bermuda and east of the Bahamas. American eel larvae (known as leptocephali) are transported by ocean currents for nearly a year until they reach the east coast of North America.

Repository Citation

Beaty, Julia, "Fisheries Now: American Eel" (2014). Maine Sea Grant Publications. 74.
https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/seagrant_pub/74

Version

publisher's version of the published document