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Evaluating Recruitment of American Eel, Anguilla rostrata, in the Potomac River (Spring 2025)
Tuckey, Troy Fabrizio, Mary
Tuckey, Troy
Fabrizio, Mary
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American Eel (Anguilla rostrata) is a valuable commercial species along the Atlantic coast of North America from New Brunswick to Florida. Landings from Chesapeake Bay typically represent about 65% of the annual United States commercial harvest (ASMFC 2023). American Eel is also important to the recreational fishery as this species is often used as live bait for Striped Bass (Morone saxatilis) and Cobia (Rachycentron canadum). In 2021, Chesapeake Bay commercial landings of American Eel (284,297 lbs) represented 87% of the U.S. landings of yellow eel (personal communication from the National Marine Fisheries Service, Fisheries Statistics Division). Since the 1980s, harvest along the U.S. Atlantic Coast has declined, with similar patterns occurring in the Canadian Maritime Provinces (Meister and Flagg 1997). The American Eel Benchmark Stock Assessment report (ASMFC 2012) established that the American Eel is depleted in U.S. waters. The most recent American Eel Benchmark Stock Assessment confirmed the stock remains depleted and abundance is lower than what was reported in the 2017 stock assessment update (ASMFC 2017; ASMFC 2023).
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2025
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Virgina Institute of Marine Science
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Tuckey, T. D. & Fabrizio, M. C. (2025) Evaluating Recruitment of American Eel, Anguilla rostrata, in the Potomac River: Spring 2025. Virginia Institute of Marine Science, William & Mary. https://doi.org/10.25773/VN6D-6A16
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https://doi.org/10.25773/VN6D-6A16