Talk:American eel

Untitled

The once prolific American eel has declined drastically in numbers during recent years. While there may be a number of reasons for the decline including ocean temperature changes, current shifts and pathogens, two reasons that we know about are caused by dams. Dam barriers block access to historic upstream habitat. Juvenile eels moving upstream can be incredibly adaptable and some still manage to make it past the dams, even leaving the water to do so. Once their only outmigration to spawn in the Sargasso Sea takes place at maturity they again must pass through dams. If these are hydro-electric dams then typically the only way to attempt downstream passage is through rotating steel turbine blades. Turbine induced mortality may be as high as 100%.

A petition filed by Douglas and Timothy Watts to place this species on the US Endangered Species list has been filed and the species is currently undergoing a full status review by the US Fish & Wildlife Service and National Marine Fisheries Service. Additionally, in Maine efforts are underway by Friends of Merrymeeting Bay and Douglas Watts to modify many dam licenses on the Kennebec and Androscoggin Rivers to provide for the immediate installation of up and downstream eel passage facilities. These efforts are being met with resistance by state environmental agencies who work closely with dam owners.

For more information two excellent web resources are the "cybrary" link at the Friends of Merrymeeting Bay web site: www.friendsofmerrymeetingbay.org and the Friends of Kennebec Salmon site at: www.kennebecriver.org

Ed Friedman, Friends of Merrymeeting Bay--207.5.192.218 02:29, 12 February 2006 (UTC)Ed Friedman

map

the range map is pretty good when looking at the salt-water distribution/migration of these eels but it only shows 1/2 the picture. there also need to be a map of their freshwater distributions as well. Ryan shell (talk) 18:28, 25 May 2011 (UTC)

Copyright problem removed

Prior content in this article duplicated one or more previously published sources. The material was copied from: http://www.asmfc.org/speciesDocuments/eel/eelProfile.pdf. Infringing material has been rewritten or removed and must not be restored, unless it is duly released under a compatible license. (For more information, please see "using copyrighted works from others" if you are not the copyright holder of this material, or "donating copyrighted materials" if you are.) For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or published material; such additions will be deleted. Contributors may use copyrighted publications as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences or phrases. Accordingly, the material may be rewritten, but only if it does not infringe on the copyright of the original or plagiarize from that source. Please see our guideline on non-free text for how to properly implement limited quotations of copyrighted text. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously, and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. While we appreciate contributions, we must require all contributors to understand and comply with these policies. Thank you. Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 10:57, 1 November 2011 (UTC)

External links modified

Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just modified 4 external links on American eel. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:

• Corrected formatting/usage for http://littoralsociety.org/userfiles/doccenter/Species
• Corrected formatting/usage for http://www.mnr.gov.on.ca/en/Business/SORR/2ColumnSubPage/EELPAGE.html
• Corrected formatting/usage for http://www.mnr.gov.on.ca/en/Business/LetsFish/2ColumnSubPage/STEL02_165908.html
• Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20100820034707/http://www.greenpeace.org/international/seafood/red-list-of-species to http://www.greenpeace.org/international/seafood/red-list-of-species

When you have finished reviewing my changes, please set the checked parameter below to true or failed to let others know (documentation at {{Sourcecheck}}).

This message was posted before February 2018. After February 2018, "External links modified" talk page sections are no longer generated or monitored by InternetArchiveBot. No special action is required regarding these talk page notices, other than regular verification using the archive tool instructions below. Editors have permission to delete these "External links modified" talk page sections if they want to de-clutter talk pages, but see the RfC before doing mass systematic removals. This message is updated dynamically through the template {{source check}} (last update: 18 January 2022).

• If you have discovered URLs which were erroneously considered dead by the bot, you can report them with this tool.
• If you found an error with any archives or the URLs themselves, you can fix them with this tool.

Cheers.—InternetArchiveBot (Report bug) 14:28, 11 October 2016 (UTC)