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[MakoMike]

Originally Posted by Redsoxticket

You equate 2lbs of elvers or 10,000 individual elvers to one adult eel and then stated that the yellow eels used for fishing are not the adults (silver eel). Your logic would be correct if those dozen eels purchased at the bait shop were silver eels but their not, they are yellow eels. Do you know how many yellow eels needed to make one adult silver eel being that you studied this topic extensively?

You are absolutely correct. No I don't know how many yellow eels make it to become silver eels. I would assume that, like most other fish, the mortality is much less as they grow larger.

I was trying to make a point, which some here seem to miss completely, e.g. the average fisherman who uses eels is doing almost as much damage to the eel population as an elver fisherman.