Other dangers to eels
When I lived on the New Jersey coast back in 1994, the newspapers had constant reports of nets being strewn across the rivers when eel elvers would be born in the estuaries, those nets would catch millions of baby eels and all those baits would head over seas for the Asian markets. There was a lot of screaming by the recreational fishing community, but no action. Today, I wonder if those nets still block the estuaries in Southern Jersey, although there probably are not enough eels left for that market to target ...
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