]]> http://media.ourhudson.org/task-force-themes/land-use/chris-bowser-voices-of-the-valley/feed/ 0 http://media.ourhudson.org/task-force-themes/land-use/hrecos-story-immature-american-eels-are-riding-the-tides/ http://media.ourhudson.org/task-force-themes/land-use/hrecos-story-immature-american-eels-are-riding-the-tides/#comments Thu, 21 Jan 2010 18:05:48 +0000 Alene Onion http://media.ourhudson.org/?p=174

A dwindling eel population has beckoned the help of kids and adults who splash around in streams with hands-full of eels.

Assessing the health of the eel population is the goal of the Hudson River American Eel Research Project, a citizen science program run by the NYSDEC Hudson River Estuary Program, the National Estuarine Research Reserve, and the NYS Water Resource Institute at Cornell.The American Eel (Anguilla rostrata) begins its life in the Sargasso Sea. The immature eels, called “glass eels,” migrate across the ocean to the coastline of the Eastern U.S. and push their way up our rivers and streams. The eels stay here for decades before returning to the ocean as fully grown “silver eels.”

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