While the eels’ population in the Atlantic Ocean remains at a historic low, there is new hope for their comeback in New York’s largest river, according to experts. In 2023, ...

Similarly, the Atlantic cod, a vertical excavator with a bioturbation score 100, is classified as vulnerable. Popularly consumed in dishes like fish and chips, cod populations have declined ...

So Schmidt journeyed farther into the open ocean. The tinier the eels he found, the closer he figured he was to their spawning grounds. Eventually, he sailed from northern Europe toward the Caribbean, ...

European and American eels spawn in the Sargasso Sea in the Atlantic Ocean. The tiny baby eels swim to coastal areas and then upriver. Called glass eels at this point, they are transparent and are ...

North America’s only freshwater eel, the creatures spawn in the Atlantic Ocean’s Sargasso Sea. After they hatch, baby eels are carried by ocean currents to coastlines as far north as Greenland ...

Almost entirely across the Atlantic Ocean, as it turns out. Adult European eels undertake a grueling 3,107 to 6,214 mile (5,000 to 10,000 kilometer) migration to the Sargasso Sea, not far from ...

American eels will follow the natural flow of rivers and streams from the Atlantic Ocean to North America and will live upwards of 40 years before returning to the Sargossa Sea to reproduce ...

The Sargasso Sea, a warm, calm expanse of the North Atlantic Ocean, is bordered not by land but by four strong currents—a gyre. Vast mats of prickly brown seaweed float so thickly on the ...

American eels are catadromous; they spend most of their life in fresh water and migrate to the ocean to spawn. More: Thresher sharks spotted off the Seacoast.But don't worry, you're not on the menu!

On the other side of the globe from the Sargasso, the Japanese eel makes a 3,000-kilometer annual migration from Japan and surrounding countries to the West Mariana Ridge in the western Pacific Ocean.