Elvers have left the building

[cheferson]

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[jimmyCT]

Eel are Catadromous as opposed to Diadromous.

i believe its been illegal to take elvers from most states except for maine, which is the state this article came from. Its a different perspective i guess.

its unfortuante that eel stock was allowed to be depleted as its not only an important bait, but an important forage for the striped bass. Not much that can be done now.

The loss of bait is a problem. Its true we can just buy farm raised eels, I dont see that anyone can ever ban that from happening.

[timw]

Farm raised eels come from the wild as well, they are captured from the wild as glass eels or elvers and raised to a marketable size in captivity. There is no artificial production of American eels in hatcheries like is done with trout or salmon. No one has even ever seen adult eels in the act of spawning.