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Today, at lunch time, I had a great opportunity to observe about ten
adult (up to 100 cm long) and subadult eels moving about in the deep
pool just below the outlet of the huge culvert through which flows
the stream once known as Sawmill River. The site is located in the
little park next to Alderney Drive near Mill Lane downtown.
The tide was low and the stream was running fairly high after
Wednesday night's rainfall. The eels were actively swimming, and it
looked like they were trying to move upstream, into the culvert. But at
this time of the year eels should be moving towards the sea. There were
schools of other fish, of unknown (to me) species, milling about the
culvert and below the low-head dam further downstream.
One doesn't get to see live wild eels very often, especially in the
city...
Dusan Soudek
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